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The Epstein files have revealed, as the journalist Helen Rumbelow puts it in this excellent piece in The Times, a ‘hidden world oiled by porn saturated misogyny’. Men, all kinds of men, from Andrew, to Mandleson, to Gates, to Branson, to Bannon, to Chomsky, to Attia, and a whole host of others, are implicated, if not by their proven actions towards women, then by their words and attitudes. In email after email, women are ‘pussy’ when they are young and desirable and ‘c***ts’ when they are neither. Longevity guru Attia tells Epstein that ‘pussy is, indeed, low carb’; Bannon jokes about ‘liking pussy’; someone emails Epstein promising, ‘abundent young pussy flesh’; the (now deceased) satirist Paul Krassner tells a grim tale of a woman stoned in Biblical times who is, ‘inadvertently showing her sweet shocking vulnerable pink pussy’; artist Andres Serrano says he may give Trump a ‘sympathy vote’ because he’s so ‘disgusted by the outrage over ‘grab’em by the pussy’. In total, there are 525 mentions of ‘pussy’ in the current ‘Epstein Library’.
About an unnamed woman, Epstein writes, ‘wrinkly old hag, just because she is rich she thinks she can talk down to everyone…Everyone knows her husband is f***ing young russians… nasty c***… bags of cottage cheese in her pants’; an unnamed friend of Epstein writes to him about his wife, ‘f***ing crazy… 26 years with the same miserable c***’; and even Sarah Ferguson isn’t immune, Epstein sends a pic of her to a friend and sniggers, ‘not the prettiest sight’. Public intellectual Noam Chomsky appears to take aim at the post #metoo world, and – his words – the, ‘hysteria that has developed about abuse of women’. It’s all too familiar, isn’t it? We are ugly, we are witches, we are crazy, we are hysterical – particularly when we tell on them for abusing us. Tell me you haven’t had these ideas used against you, even though you don’t live in the world of superyachts and billionaires.
And whilst the ongoing political fallout is undoubtedly important, what really stands out for me, ever since I saw that grim image of Andrew that I just can’t get out of my head, is how the files expose once and for all just how men loathe us and see us as nothing more than commodities to be f***ed when we’re young, and waste products to be derided and despised when we’re old. And sacking Mandleson or Starmer will do nothing to change that fact.
All my life I have been told not all men, not all men, not all men. Stop being unfair. Most men are really nice and kind. Don’t be such a man hater. It’s only these power-crazed types. It’s only these weirdo edge-cases. It’s only the odd bad apple. It’s not all men. Well I’m sorry, but I’m starting to lose confidence in this messaging. I’m starting to feel like the time for fairness and making allowances is over. I’m starting to feel like being a man-hater is not such a bad default position. The evidence is there in their beloved pornography. And it’s there in the Epstein files.
Yes, I’m starting to feel like maybe it is all men.
Source: Not all men? I’m losing confidence in this idea
