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6 is close but many upper class elites being pedophiles was suspected or known even before Epstein's fall exposed it. I remember the hilarious skit where Sacha Baron Cohen bought a "pedophile detector" when meeting with Roy Moore for instance. Jimmy Savile was able to abuse hundreds of people, many children, without anything being exposed till after his death. There's a former Speaker of the house who was a serial child molester and suspiciously like many others the courts just seemed to drop the ball with him. He literally admitted to it*. Pizzagate was moronic as the only meaningful failure here but that was a bunch of partisan brained morons trying to find "secret messages" rather than actually being against child abuse.
If the pedophiles aren't going to be exposed and punished then the second best option is to be weary of anyone who does pedophile lite behavior. Like a 40 year old who only wants to date people 18-20? Pretty suspicious, makes me wonder how much lower they'd go if it wasn't illegal. Makes me wonder how much lower they are going and how much they care to check if the person they're with is of age.
Like Bill Cosby, Huw Edwards, and Kevin Spacey? Afrika frikkin Bambaata? Okay they're not upper class elites, but neither was Jimmy Saville. They're all public figures though, which is its own type of status. They've also been exposed and they've been punished. Epstein himself was in prison. Maxwell is in prison.
Upper class elites certainly have a lot more resources available to evade detection, but that doesn't explain the Rotherham rape gangs. Immigrant minicab drivers and takeaway owners are not elites in any sense and they got away with it for years.
I'm tired of seeing the "everyone knew" narrative when it's such obvious confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. People only remember the famous ones and people only focus on the ones that suit their agenda, but because dodgy sex abusers exist in all strata of society (immigrants, Hollywood, establishment figures, pop stars, priests, Jewish financiers, teachers, gay adoption parents, straight adoption parents, young old rich poor left right up down and 100x as many unremarkable nobodies) people can always find an example to grind their axe that "everyone knew x is evil", neglecting all the other non-deviant or baselessly-suspected members of those demographics. The true commonality is that they're ~99% men (when women abuse children it tends to be the non-sexual type of abuse, and thus less scandalous and correspondingly less discussed).
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For a male....No? Nothing at all suspicious.
20 - 30 is objectively when women are most physically attractive to men of all ages. When I was in 8th grade I had Megan Fox or whoever - that is, women older than me as objects of fantasy. My Dad remembers 1990s Cindy Crawford - younger than him then (and, now, too fwiw).
How is this suspicious?
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"wary". Though in the context of serial offenders on two continents with decades of abuses it's an understandable typo.
Weary/wary and risque/risky are two spelling errors that baffle me. I'm a pretty poor at spelling, and mix up there, their, they're more than occasionally, but those two aren't homonyms.
They are natural errors to make if you learn english mostly by reading, so are a strong sign of a non-native speaker. English spelling is unusually arbitrary and it's very easy to read those pairs as homophones. And otoh mixing up there and they're is a nonsensical error to make if you learned by reading, so are a sign of a native speaker. See also could of.
Good points! I'm surprised at how many native speakers use risky when I'm pretty sure they mean risquè.
I would suspect that they're not mixing up spellings, but are just unaware that it's a separate word instead of a weird way to pronounce risky to make it euphemistic.
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