from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 07 Feb 14:16
https://sh.itjust.works/post/54903685
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
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Well. That was a fun read.
These men are filth. And completely getting away with it.
One of my questions has always been: Who has taken things over now? Because you know a lot of them haven’t just magically stopped.
I loved this article.
It explains the day-to-day mechanisms of Epstein’s systematic sexual abuse machine. But it doesn’t stick with the superficial facts and gut reactions. Instead, it looks at the facts in human terms, in terms of discourse analysis, in terms of identities, in terms of how the interactions happened.
This may sound insensitive, but I think this is my favorite piece of media I’ve seen on the whole Epstein sexual abuse machine.
Thanks for sharing it
Who would have thought a cabal of powerful rich white men who arrange kid-diddling parties in private islands would be so misogynistic?