“A federal judge has unsealed hundreds of pages of deposition transcripts and other documents related to a now-settled defamation suit brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping the late Jeffrey Epstein run a sex trafficking operation that catered to rich and powerful men.”
—Bill Chappel, Scott Neuman, NPR
Ok I have to say a thing.
Jeffrey Epstein and company are vile, disgusting creatures who should ALL be held accountable.
And also
I was teenage girl in the 90s and this was NORMAL behavior.
Obviously not the private island orgies, but sexualizing teenagers? Um … yeah. This was how all men behaved … teachers, dude at the post office, guys who grabbed on the street … they all touched, made comments, expected things.
Us pretending this was isolated behavior by a few rich creeps erases a decade and a half of the life of every woman I know over age 35.
I grew up fighting. I also grew up thinking women had one option (keeping very creepy men happy so they either gave you things or at least didn’t murder you).
This was for survival and it applied to women at all class levels.
This isn’t because I was sadly mistaken or because billionaires did what they do. It’s because culturally, for a time, it was true.
—darcy totten
Flommist Darcy Totten is devoted to illuminating often-overlooked voices and telling stories from new angles. Darcy has worked with MTV, Spike TV, NBC/Hearst, ABC, Corbis, the State of Texas, Pantheacon, RGBB, LLC, KIA motors, The Promised Band, ACSA, the NBA, several Black Lives Matter chapters and is the co-founder of Activism Articulated. Copyright © 2020 Darcy Totten.
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