My dear old Dad used to say that a woman with her skirt up runs faster than a man with his pants down.

Timing is everything.  Patrick Brown was judgemoored.

Christie Blatchford:

It means that every man in the world is vulnerable, not because he has necessarily misconducted himself, but because a woman may say he has. The truth of the alleged misconduct — did it happen? Were there mitigating circumstances? Does the accuser have motive to lie? — is incidental, if not irrelevant.