What I am most hoping will happen as a result of all this, is for people to understand that this is normal.
The Epstein story is very unusual only in the sense of just how rich and powerful him and his buddies were. Other than that, the dehumanization, the manipulation, the sea of enablers that look the other way, etc. all of that is the norm of the world.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre tells the story of a miscarriage she had at the age of 17 in her book. Epstein and Maxwell brought her to a hospital, but the doctors didn’t talk to her, they didn’t note her real age, they didn’t take accurate records, they just talked to Epstein. The doctors and staff didn’t ask a 17 yr old why she was having a miscarriage and being brought to the hospital by a 47 yr old man who was not related to her. Nope, they looked the other way. She reported her abuse to a psychiatrist who just gave her Xanax. He looked the other way. And so did the drivers, and chef’s, and security guards, and pilots, and maids, and on and on. Because this is the way of the world.
And things like the man vs bear, I hope that you can see that this is an attempt to get the world to understand that these stories aren’t once offs. They aren’t wild anomalies. It’s an attempt to get the world to understand that women live their lives as prey. Women live in a world that dehumanizes them and looks the other way when they are abused.
I want you to understand that this isn’t a bizarre story, this is just a very dramatic iteration of what is normal in our world.