https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/ghislaine-maxwell-docuseries-peacock

 

Jeffrey Epstein was a monster. Plain and simple. Read any article about him and you'll get detailed a list of the crimes that he committed and how he was connected to a lot of famous and powerful people.

What you won't see are questions like: What was his home life like as a child? What was his mother like? His father? Was he abused? Was he an addict? Did he endure some kind of trauma or indoctrination? What drove him to do the things that he did?

 

But what about Ghislaine Maxwell? The woman that worked with and stood by Epstein for decades? She's "complicated" and "mysterious." The word monster doesn't appear once in the entire article.

Notice how quickly the article turns to her family life and begins talking about how she was abused by her father. How she was "left to deal with scandal" when her father died. And "rebooted her life."

It's like they're already planning her Lifetime movie in which she will be portrayed as a victim of abuse that heroically turned her life around only to end up as one of Epstein's victims.

 

Why is the media obsessed with find someone else to blame for her actions? Why do they repeatedly portray women as human beings that were twisted into evil acts by someone else or circumstances beyond their control? Why do they dig so desperately for someone or somewhere else to lay the blame when a woman commits a crime?

 

If men who commit certain crimes are simply monsters that should be buried under the prison, why aren't the women who stood next to them, supported them, and participated in the crimes, treated exactly the same way by the media?

Because it fits the narrative that men are predators and women are victims and paragons of virtue. If a man commits a crime, that just confirms that men are toxic and aggressive. So men simply choose to commit evil acts because they are evil. Whereas women are righteous victims so they must have been driven to act out. There must have been a reason she did what she did. And if at all possible, they will find a way to blame a man or men in general. Just as they are pushing blame onto her father and Epstein in this case.

 

Unfortunately for them, this drive to depict women as blameless is in direct opposition to the other popular feminist message in popular media. That women are stronger and smarter than men. So why doesn't the media want to hold these women responsible for their own actions? Why don't they simply condemn them based on the crimes that they are accused of committing the same way they do men?