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It's not about men/women because women are helping men make victims of little girls and are getting awayt with it. Did I get that right?
Yes there's a class element, they prey on girls without the material means to fight back - but that doesn't negate the sexism, it just reinforces it
The image that was posted is literally arguing that "Women who have their photos leaked lose careers", but "Powerful men who can be linked to epstein get to stay in power", as the grounds for declaring "inequality! sexism!".
I pointed out that in the Epstein case, looking at people who are named in the files (so same general control group), there are women like the Rothschild chick, who are getting off scott-free. I also pointed out that looking at two people who committed the same crimes (Ghislaine and Epstein were partners in all this afterall), the guy got killed, the woman got a dog, to highlight that the 'inequality' often favours women -- particularly when they, too, have money. Really, Ariane Rothschild getting off scott free, just like every other Epstein named collaborator, is enough of a counter to the 'attempted' point from the image -- as it shows that the getting off scott free isn't necessarily happening because they are 'men', since 'women' too are without accountability.
I agree that inequalities exist, but I don't agree that it's as rampant as the left seems to think, nor do I think "ALL" inequalities boil down to gender shit. And I don't agree that looking at the accountability for those named in the epstein files is a good place to try and highlight gender inequalities (the actual crimes committed were generally against women, but that's not what the image is highlighting -- and if we want to look at that sort of thing, through a gender lens, then it'd be fair to bring up the lopsided casualties in things like war and drafts, where men's deaths far outnumber women, and basically no one in the epstein class/rich gives a shit. It's sorta like politicians arguing "Those who suffer most are the wives and children left behind" when a guy gets killed in a war - as though the guy dying isn't sorta a bad result from the POV of the individual, one that's a bit worse than not having a husband/dad around.
Besides, if you want to talk about careers ruined by phone leaks/images on devices -- there are plenty of men who've had careers ruined by a dick pick, or even just an accusation of sexually inappropriate behaviours - though these consequences generally fall on the poors/commoners. So even the "Women who have their photos leaked lose careers!" is sorta bullshit. Hell, Kim Kardashian is practically famous because her private shit got "leaked". Name a dude who's made a billion off of a leaked dick pick. Heck, even that Coldplay cheating scandal -- the guy lost his job, the HR lady he was cheating with kept hers.
The guy who lost his job in the Coldplay cheating scandal was the CEO. He carried more blame for inappropriate behavior at work because he was in a position of higher power. Also the HR woman did lose that job.
I’m not sure it should be seen as a benefit for women to potentially have more fame because their nudes leaked and men enjoyed it. An outlier is not a rule made and most women would be horrified to have their sex tapes leaked as revenge porn.
No one is saying every single inequality boils down to “gender shit”.
That's like saying slavery wasn't about race but economics because you had black slave owners
Scoping and context matter -- I'm not saying sexism doesn't exist, nor am I saying that the crimes committed weren't based on sexually predatory men exploiting vulnerable women. But the argument the image is making is just shit, and conflating different topics, botching the framing and diminishing the statements ability to persuade me as a reader/consumer.
Using your own response to highlight it: "slavery wasn't about race but economics because you had black slave owners".
You didn't properly frame that as American slavery, you're presuming the context is just known to your reader, and that they'll inherently agree with your point as you view it as politically correct -- you're being intentionally lazy with your word choice, but that makes the statement easily challenged/ignored. It's sorta like virtue signalling -- you don't need to "prove" something will benefit an individual, if you can convince them its for some nebulous greater good. To your lazily framed statement, one could ask: What about Rome? What about Korea, one of the areas with the longest history of slavery? How about the First Nation groups in the PNW, who prior to "colonization" ruining their culture, were known as prolific slave traders with about 25% of their band being slaves from other FN bands? "Slavery" itself isn't about black and white, nor is it specifically about race. America's racism, is America's racism -- slavery or no, as many non-whites have found out in the years since slavery was "abolished" in that country.
The image is leaning on virtue signalling, saying "sexism is bad"/"women are disadvantaged" to present a disjointed argument about gender inequality. The examples they provide are shit: in the two 'things' they put forward, having photos leaked online and being named in the Epstein files, if you look for cases with the two genders, there are differences but it's not a solid ground to stake a position. There are both men and women in the Epstein files, as conspirators/contributors/victimizers, who are all getting off nearly scott free (gotta quantify that a bit, as it's mostly US people getting off totally scott free, the US people in power specifically). And if you look at photo leaks/mis-sent photos, there's lots of examples of men getting shafted, and there are examples of women turning huge profits off it/gaining careers from it.
Like if the base argument is "men got off scott free in epstein, women lose careers in photo leaks". Then pointing out women got off scott free in the epstein files, and that men lose careers over photo leaks, you could accurately rebut that argument simply by saying "women got off scott free in epstein, men lose careers in photo leaks -- they are equally avoiding accountability in the files, and both losing careers to photo leaks, so where's the inequality?".
The image isn't arguing that "the epstein files was a giant multi-nation syndicate setup to exploit vulnerable women for the benefit of sexually predatory rich men, while also gaining blackmail material on those men". It's arguing "Men have no accountability from Epstein stuff, while women lose careers for a photo leak, therefore sexual inequality!". It's a shitty argument, even if you agree that sexual inequality exists.