It’s not just Harvey Weinstein, but the whole film industry that’s built on sexism.

America loves to see a Hollywood villain go down – and Harvey Weinstein is a true Hollywood villain. Creepy, leering, looming, odious. Even in Miramax’s heyday, the company would have had a hard time conjuring a monster as vicious as the man revealed in back-to-back New York Times and New Yorker exposés.

So it’s been gratifying to see the rush of outrage and condemnation that has accompanied Weinstein’s thud from grace. In stunning succession, he has lost his job, his wife, his kids, his membership in the Academy, his status, his power.

All this is as it should be. When a man preys on scores of women with impunity he should be cast from his power perch and forced to contend with the fallout of his crimes. But as the outrage has crescendoed, it’s been frustrating that one of Weinstein’s most prominent co-conspirators has gone largely unacknowledged: the film industry itself.

I don’t just mean the retinue of aiders and abettors, silent witnesses and sleazy sycophants who enabled Weinstein’s reported thuggery for more than two decades. These men – and, yes, even women – blithely served up Weinstein’s victims for him, delivering them to hotel rooms and casting couches, and then dutifully cleaned up his messes; they should be held accountable. The circle of guilt spreads well beyond the once-hallowed doors of Weinstein’s Tribeca studio all the way to the to the vast, glittering man-swamp that is the world’s film capital.

Hollywood, for all its liberal grandstanding, is a deeply sexist place. This statement is so obvious that it’s almost embarrassing to have to write it. But it bears repeating, as the industry begins to grapple with the fact that that one of its most powerful members seemingly got away with raping, assaulting and harassing dozens of women for years. Otherwise, there’s a danger that the scandal, while toppling Weinstein, will leave the infrastructure that enabled his abuse intact.

What does this infrastructure look like? For one thing, it’s male – very, very male. And white. White male. Researchers at institutes like the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film have begun cataloguing the imbalance. In 2016, women held just 17 percent of the “behind-the-scenes” positions in the year’s 250 top grossing movies.

In the days since the Weinstein story broke, women across the film industry have been speaking out, demanding an end to Hollywood’s culture of smarm. This is heartening. Still, if the film industry is going to really change, the whole ecosystem needs to be transformed. Women need to be powerful and respected throughout the system, from the producer’s suite to the director’s chair to catering and janitorial services, where you know women are getting harassed – and underpaid and exploited – but no one is writing an exposé about it.

Otherwise, it doesn’t really matter that a major villain was taken down. Hollywood, after all, is notorious for sequels.

LIZZY RATNER is a senior editor at The Nation.