The problem is much greater than Jeffrey Epstein Rebecca Solnett star-news.press/wp

S.On July 2, the jury issued a guilty ruling on some charges against the music pole Sean Compass, accused of the horrific sexual assault of women of the help of his wide employees and deep pockets. He is also accused in many civilian claims of sexual assault on adults and minors. It seems that everyone immediately forgotten when the facts of the financier Jeffrey Epstein achieved at least 100 girls and women, with the help of his wide employees, deep pockets, and the elite links on the following front pages became.

In June, the film producer Harvey Winstein was Condemn In New York’s re -trial for some contracts for sexual assault on women, with the help of his vast employees, senior lawyers, cinema industry, some former Mossad agents and of course his deep pockets. In February a Handed the Federal Appeal Court Editors and sentences of 30 years imprisonment from singer R Kelly on blackmail and sex trafficking; Last year last The prison sentence was also supported for 20 years, to produce pictures of child abuse and child temptation. Of course, his deep pockets and extensive assistance were also factors in how he was able to misuse girls for a long time.

One of the reasons why the epidemic of violence against women is not recognized is that there are cases such as these are talked about individually, and often treated as if it was a shock in deviations instead of part of a widespread pattern that works on all levels of society. Another is that in the most literal and not news sense – there is a tide of hatred and violence against other groups that recede and flow, but violence against women is global and permanent, and it is a fixed event and not an event. The other is that the application of the law and the legal system was often more interested in protecting the perpetrators, often the normalization of society and even a celebration against women.

Imagine that we had no word about cancer and not to identify the types of methods that are manifested, so that we had mysterious news stories sometimes about strange growth and sometimes fatal in different parts of different people, not linking versions in the minds to the releases in the prostate and breasts. If we do not get to know the common denominators, we will not be able to develop diagnoses and treatments or treat root causes. Feminal actually provided a diagnosis, steadily, for decades and centuries: that the reason is the hate of women and violence aims to commit inequality and the exploitation and dependency of women. But the stories of one state avoid this estimate by dealing with something everywhere as exceptional and isolated.

The only exceptional thing in Epstein’s crimes is its measure and perhaps the complexity of financial victims, transportation and other systems that he used for traffic and control of victims of abuse and abuse. The nature of the crimes was normal and common. In the United States, there is a Rape every 68 secondsA woman was beaten by an intimate partner Every nine secondsAnd while more men are killed annually, “more than half of the victims of the killing are killed by an intimate or former intimate partner,” According to the Center for Anti -Tennis and Combating. At the global level is a woman or girl She was killed by her partner or family members Every 10 minutes. A high percentage of human trafficking around the world is women and girls for sexual exploitation.

Instead of focusing on prominent cases in my opening paragraphs, I could have found examples of hundreds of sexual assault on women, girls and boys by the ministers of the Southern Baptist Church. NPR said in 2022 that “the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Agreement has offended the allegations of sexual assault, and offered many survivors of survivors and priority of SBC protection from responsibility,” NPR said in 2022. or Ghusl From the alleged Andrew Como Sexual harassment and touch While the Governor of New York, followed by his persecution for those who spoke. It was possible that both American and Canadian residential schools were exposed to former students who have been sexually abused in them.

Prevention that we will discover whether Donald Trump is a sexual predator or not if Epstein’s files are in itself a kind of cover-up, because we already know that-although I am all to know what is very feverish. He was found responsible for the sexual assault on E Jean carroll in a civil trial of 2023 and was accused of the credibility of adherence, seizure and assault by many women. His worst behavior than the teenage girls in the beauty competitions he managed Well -notedAs is his proximity to Epstein.

Now, like all the men mentioned in the first paragraphs of this article, Trump has a work machine at work – one without previous. Our federal government, which is funded by our taxes, seems hard to protect Trump from everything in these files. Mike Johnson, the head of the house, has Congress was postponed to protect Trump One of the democratic measures aimed at forcing Republicans to vote to launch Epstein’s files. Many high -level officials do not serve people, but they outperform the fever.

As the hill ReportsSenator Dick Durbin of the Judicial Committee says that he received information that the Prosecutor Bam Bondi “pressed” on about 1,000 FBI employees to comb tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the crime of the sexual perpetrator, convicted Jeffrey Epstein, and the knowledge of any male of President Trump. A thousand workers withdrew their official jobs – this exceptional effort makes Trump seem to have a lot to hide.

But in other words, the entire society hides something: that this violence exists everywhere and our society constitutes in depth – or they drink – our society. The statistics I mentioned above deal with specific crimes victims. But all girls and women are affected by the fact that many men want to harm us and that these crimes can occur to any of us. This violence affects the options we make about where we go and when, what are the functions that must be taken, when we talk, and what we wear. The threat of actual violence and violence by some men against some women and girls proves the weakness of females, fear and lack of empowerment on a large scale. Society has largely asked us to change our lives to avoid this, rather than changing society to make us free and equal. This violence is the independence engine that benefits all men, as it is “more equal than others” in this regard is benefit.

Do not address gradual stories – “Here is this bad man that we need to do something about him” – the fact that the problem is regular and that the solution is not the police and imprisonment. It is a social change, and societies will change enough when violence against women stops to be an epidemic that extends across continents and centuries. Regular problems require systematic responses, and while I am all to issue Epstein files, I want a broader conversation and deeper change.