Thread by @OpDeathEatersUS

Reckoning with Jeffrey Epstein, @megangarber writes, also demands reckoning with the pop culture that surrounded him: theatlantic.com/entertainment/… "One more shameful truth Jeffrey "#Epstein symbolized: a culture that continues to write girls out of its stories" #OpDeathEaters

@megangarber “women who went to Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion as girls tend to divide their lives into two parts: life before Jeffrey & life after Jeffrey,” Brown noted.

“He ruined my life and a lot of girls’ lives,” said Michelle Licata, another of #Epstein’s alleged victims." #OpDeathEaters

@megangarber "There is no such thing as an “underage woman.” Underage women are girls. But the mistake, repeated several times since July, has been in its own way revealing." In our culture, even the word "girls" doesn't convey the truth that these are CHILDREN #OpDeathEaters

@megangarber "It suggests an American culture that remains reluctant to equate the interests of powerful men and the interests of vulnerable girls. And it suggests an ongoing ambivalence about what it means to be a girl in the first place." Modeling and marketing #OpDeathEaters

@megangarber "Hollywood has a long history of insisting that girls in general, and teenage girls in particular, are simply women in a kind of disguise." A whole culture built around the worship of children as sex objects. It's obscene.

@megangarber "Alfredo Rodriguez...told a Palm Beach detective investigating the Epstein case that he had suspected the girls in #Epstein’s orbit were underage in part because, as the detective summed it up, “they would eat tons of cereal and drink milk all the time.” #OpDeathEaters

@megangarber #Epstein took refuge in a culture that revolves, still, around the whims of the wealthy a& the straight & the male. He found protection within the networked strain of #impunity that for so long kept the secrets of, among so many others, Bill Cosby & R. Kelly & Harvey Weinstein."

@megangarber “I am angry Jeffrey #Epstein won’t have to face his survivors of his abuse in court...We have to live with the scars of his actions for the rest of our lives, while he will never face the consequences of the crimes he committed" #OpDeathEaters