Cormac McCarthy's secret muse breaks silence

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Anonymous wrote:I have a problem with the way the article was written. I know these things happen and I do understand, but the journalist wrote it in such a way as to normalize and glamorize what are essentially pedophile relationships. He starts off the article in a breathy way, calling it the greatest love story ever, he talks about how irresistible it was to be in front of this beautiful 16-year-old, it's incredibly creepy and it shows how our culture sexualizes female children in particular, and makes it seem both sexy and OK for middle-aged men to leer at them, target them, and have sex with them. The article not only justified what happened, but made it seem glamorous.

I'm definitely not the only person thinking this, there are a lot of people out there who were appalled by the article. I am an open minded person, and as a teen girl I had many crushes on older men, but for some reason this article gave me really bad feelings. I mean do we want a culture where girls are married off at puberty to men in their 40s and 50s?

That’s the Atlantic for you. Really annoying writing style.

Except that the article is in Vanity Fair.

Won't you agree that it relies heavily on purple prose like an essay submitted by a sexy SLAC senior with a crush on her Narcissian professor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a problem with the way the article was written. I know these things happen and I do understand, but the journalist wrote it in such a way as to normalize and glamorize what are essentially pedophile relationships. He starts off the article in a breathy way, calling it the greatest love story ever, he talks about how irresistible it was to be in front of this beautiful 16-year-old, it's incredibly creepy and it shows how our culture sexualizes female children in particular, and makes it seem both sexy and OK for middle-aged men to leer at them, target them, and have sex with them. The article not only justified what happened, but made it seem glamorous.

I'm definitely not the only person thinking this, there are a lot of people out there who were appalled by the article. I am an open minded person, and as a teen girl I had many crushes on older men, but for some reason this article gave me really bad feelings. I mean do we want a culture where girls are married off at puberty to men in their 40s and 50s?

+1000. This is not a great love story. It is not a May December romance. It is an incredibly sad story about an abused teen girl who was desperately seeking safety and love, and instead found herself in the thrall of a sexual predator from whom she never fully escaped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So she never married? She is childless? I don't get why she never married him, at least once she was middle aged?

Is it possible she's making up his continued pursuit and proposals to her?

I mean it's pretty obvious, yea?

Once she was an adult with free will who wanted to make her own choices, the appeal is gone.

If they got married and had kids, they'd be just another miserable American couple counting down the days until the kids are 18 and they can GTFO.

Likely at some point he would have bailed on her for another teenage girl.

Most younger girl/women lose interest once they realize their savior is really just a creepy old man, and they have men their own age who are better looking and have more to offer.