Yes. In this day and age, memes are often exchanged without context,
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Perhaps hanging around with Epstein didnât feel that different from hanging around with Werner Erhard.
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with his beautiful young assistant from Belarus
getting foot massages from two young well-dressed Russian women
Ick. If youâre doing an Esquire profile of someone and donât want to derail the article by going too far into who the other people present are, this kind of description is okay. In an email, supposedly showing how cool the scene is? Ick.
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There are probably people who read that sort of description in Esquire and are very much intrigued. (One might hope that describing the women as âunderageâ would turn them off.)
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Thread.
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This is the third time Iâve seen a disturbing point come up: the claim that the women/girls were young, but not that young, not illegal young. Although it didnât happen this time, in a previous reference it specifically stated they were 19-23.
Hereâs my thing: at 13 I was mistaken for being in my early 20s or older, all the time. At 16 a fellow student mistook me for a teacher (I was chatting with my drama teacher when he walked up to ask her a question) and I had to show him ID before he would drop it. I was hit on by guys 20 years older than me on the regular until I reached my mid-30s.
Why? Because nobody knows what a teenage girl looks like. In my case, I was too tall for âteenâ clothes by the time I was 12, and wore my mumâs hand-me-downs all the time. Add some lipstick and youâve got â19-23â.
So unless these Epstein apologists saw government-issued ID, they donât know how old those âyoung womenâ were.
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I wonder how much of that has to do with older actresses regularly playing teenaged girls?
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With regards to that book he mentions about the commercialization of research, it also strikes me that it ends up privileging some professions over others, specifically those that are more profitable in a commercial setting. Literature, philosophy, history, etc, not so much, hard sciences, and some social sciences, more easily commodified, so they end up getting vastly more private money than the humanities/soft sciences.
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Thanks to the BBC, thereâs an entire âhistory nerdâ genre in television shows from the UK (Time Team!). Itâs never caught on as much in North America IMHO, although the imported British shows enjoy a certain following.
Horrible Histories even had a feature film coming out.
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in the film âOnce upon a time in Hollywoodâ, Cliff Booth asks for ID.
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Interesting, especially given how old some of the girls in the Family were at the time.
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Your story reminds me of Ann Miller. She had such a long career because she started appearing in movies at 13. She told the studio she was 20.
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or 12 year old models dolled up like 30 year olds?
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Sheâs had the worst fucking decade 
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