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Nothing wrong with questioning anything, I just disagree with you. You should question the narrative. But yes, I blame the guy who orchestrated and executed the teen-****ing.
Think of all the high school boys who are plied and fukked by their female teachers. Or altar boys molested by priests. I can make a reasonable assumption for where lies the blame. Something tells me they weren't being "hypergamous."
You assume that the victims feel no shame or dishonor for having placed themselves in the situation. You don't know that. I'd lay dollars to donuts they wish they'd walked away. But I can't say for sure. Maybe they really were sophisticated players who saw an opportunity for a quick $200, plus a chance at a class-action suit in 10 years. In that case all the talk here about women not being able to think for themselves should be tossed out the window.
Also, one detail, I do think it's pretty messed up that a dad would beat his daughter up and/or disown her for being molested. If that's how family values work in your Shangri-La, then whatever culture you're living in is the truly decadent one.
In my hometown a priest was arrested for molesting adolescent boys. He would pick up boys from their homes for camping trips. This all came out years later after a man who was a former victim committed suicide and left a note. His actions lead to many men coming forward.
People asked why they went camping with him knowing what would happen. They said that they didn’t want to upset their parents by not going nor did they want to raise any alarms by not going. The priest was highly esteemed with a lot of connections, my community is very Catholic, and the victims didn’t think anyone would believe them and they would get labeled as liars or worse, gay.
That priest used the respect and connections he received to create an environment where he could abuse boys at will, for years.
Epstein created an environment where he could do the same.
According to articles Epstein and his female pimp targeted girls from foster care, broken homes etc who didn’t have anyone looking out for them. Girls with no means.
Epstein probably had access to the daughters of his rich buddies but he didn’t target them did he. He targeted poor girls no one gave a f**k about.
When someone doesn’t feel that they have anyone who cares about them or that they have no power, they are the easiest to repeatedly victimize.
It’s probably hard for anyone who hasn’t been repeatedly abused to get our heads around why they stayed or kept going back or whatever, but, like you are trying to explain, it doesn’t take away from the fact that they were victimized by someone in a position to maintain the abuse, someone in a position of power over them, and for whatever reason the victim didn’t feel that they could stop it.
It’s horrible.