The thing you have to realize about AA meetings is that they're filled with people who fundamentally have character flaws. Even though they are trying their hardest to change one symptom of these flaws, alcohol abuse, it doesn't necessarily mean they're making any effort to change anything else that's bad about them. I think sometimes people have this idealized notion about people who are trying to sober up that they're trying to be better people, in general, but it's really not the case. There are plenty of predatory men who will go on being reprehensible pigs for decades after reaching sobriety.