Stop Normalizing the Abuse of Girls

My heart hurts at the way sexual abuse of girls is being softened, excused, and packaged as something “not that bad.” And now we’re seeing WOMEN spreading it.

Megyn Kelly recently said that Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t “really a pedophile” because “he liked 15-year-old girls… the barely legal type.”
As if “barely legal” isn’t still a child.
As if shifting the language makes the abuse more palatable.
As if the men who bought, traded, and violated these girls are somehow less monstrous.

Epstein is dead.
But the men who participated in the trafficking ring are still living free, without consequences.

And now women with platforms—women who surgically erase their age, who chase youth they will never reclaim, who perform a curated femininity for male approval—are helping normalize this harm.

Some do it for alignment.
Some for safety.
Some because patriarchy taught them that being cold, hard, and useful to powerful men is the closest thing to protection they’ll ever get.
I understand that survival strategy. I lived it. I became indifferent and numb to survive my own childhood trauma.

But harm is harm—no matter how it is dressed, dismissed, or disguised.

And then there are those in the institutional church who weaponize scripture while ignoring the red words entirely.
The ones who clutch crosses around their necks but stay silent about the abuse of children.
The ones who trade integrity for influence.
Jesus would be flipping tables.

Silence is not neutrality.
Silence is participation.
Every time we adjust to the rising heat, the boundary moves.
If we allow the normalization of “barely legal,” what stops it from becoming eight-year-olds?
Or younger?

We need each other.
We need a village of awake, courageous women who refuse to let darkness spread unchecked.

So here is my promise:

I will write.
I will create.
I will talk.
I will connect.
I will share.
I will love.
We will rise.

And I hope you rise with me—because doing anything is doing something.

You are so loved, Teresa