it doesn't just "look" bad when a 40-year-old picks up a 16-year-old. It literally "is" bad. it is not good to keep "quiet in deference to the author’s desire for privacy, and to protect his reputation." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b... - ThreadSky

maggie-lee.bsky.social • 118 days ago

it doesn't just "look" bad when a 40-year-old picks up a 16-year-old. It literally "is" bad.

it is not good to keep "quiet in deference to the author’s desire for privacy, and to protect his reputation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/books/cormac-mccarthy-muse.html

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rowyourbot.bsky.social•117 days ago

I can’t believe there are people defending this. She’s so traumatized she carries a gun? She’s destitute and homeless? She’s 16? He’s 42? How does anyone defend this? He’s not ‘helping’ her.

palacealice.bsky.social•117 days ago

Muse is just a fancy word for exploiting a woman generally younger with less power.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•117 days ago

Usually…although it seems some designers still see Kate Moss as a muse and she’s not young, and she’s reasonably powerful.

palacealice.bsky.social•117 days ago

We don't know how she was treated as a young girl. Hallelujah the doc on Leonard Cohen soured me on "Muses".

rowyourbot.bsky.social•117 days ago

Oh, no! Him too?

palacealice.bsky.social•117 days ago

He was with a beautiful Scandinvian woman who had a troubled life.

brownstown.bsky.social•117 days ago

so a pedo?

lmfao.wtf•117 days ago

Reminded me of this https://prospect.org/politics/how-republican-rep-john-rose-found-his-wife/

nunyadbusiness.bsky.social•117 days ago

If he was so concerned about his own legacy then he shouldn't have fucked a 16 year old girl.

maggie-lee.bsky.social•118 days ago

I read The Road. It was unputdownable for sure

i dont know or care particularly about cormac mccarthy's "legacy" or what people think of his books. but if you see something (like child abuse) say something

rebeccakell.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'm now glad I've never read his stuff. I'm less disappointed that he's a groomer/rapist

maggie-lee.bsky.social•118 days ago

also, don't abuse children, dont try and get with teens yall

eaglesadvocate.bsky.social•118 days ago

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