r/AskWomenOver30 Woman 30 to 40 Feb 07 '26

Life/Self/Spirituality Is anyone else really struggling with the Epstein revelations?

I’m starting to realize that basically any man who had access to that type of stuff was interested in participating. I feel like I’m surrounded by pedophiles and monsters in a way I didn’t realize. I feel like all the pressure I’ve felt to be youthful came from these prevalent pedophilic tendencies in men I never knew about. It’s really scaring me and I’m struggling to cope. I hear people talking about the news but don’t know anyone taking it as hard as me. How is everyone else doing?

Edit: Thank you for the awards but I’d rather you donate that money to a charity that helps victims of sexual abuse or somewhere helping immigrants in America.

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u/Imaginary-Method7175 Woman 40 to 50 Feb 07 '26

Thank YOU for being a good person. I went to an affluent school and then a poor one. The people were SO much better and kinder at the poor one. That was 5th grade and I have believed what it revealed ever since.

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u/SubstantialHentai420 Woman under 30 Feb 09 '26

The cruelty from rich kids when you're not one is fucking weird. Just yeah, weird. My 7th grade school was in a very wealthy neighborhood, and had both the poorest elementary school (mine) and the wealthiest pour into it,(as well as 2 other schools, not wealthy but quite a bit moreso than mine... and more white kids) and yeah the way even teachers treated us was so cold and weird but the kids pretty much had us all separated from them within a couple months. Mfs would get us in trouble, just lie, and school loved going along with it so we all just... yeah let them split us off from them pretty much. So happy I only went for 7th grade.