Today’s cartoon by :: @PareshNathtoons.
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"You're overreacting."
"It was just a joke."
"You're taking it the wrong way."
Every woman reading this has heard some version of these words. I hear them every time I speak up. When I posted about Deepak Chopra. When women were upset about Trump with the US men's hockey team. Dave Portnoy recorded a whole video calling women "insane" for being bothered by that.
The gaslighting never stops. The patriarchy needs us to believe we're crazy so it can keep running the show.
Well. The Epstein files just handed us even MORE evidence of what we already knew. That in the most prestigious rooms in the country, at the top universities and in Silicon Valley, powerful men are actively and deliberately excluding women.
And this time? They told us WHY.
I need you to see exactly what was said. Because this isn't innuendo. These are their actual words in their actual emails.
In 2018, literary agent John Brockman was organizing an exclusive retreat in Connecticut for elite scientists. He put together a guest list and included TWO women. Jeffrey Epstein, his biggest funder, emailed him and said the old conferences didn't care about diversity and he shouldn't either. He called women "weak" and "a distraction."
Two women on a whole guest list. And that was too many.
AI researcher Roger Schank emailed Epstein that real intelligence requires focus and that women are too busy worrying about whether they look fat or why they don't own a Kelly (Hermes) bag to be brilliant. Epstein wrote back: "No really smart women. None."
Larry Summers, former president of Harvard, emailed Epstein in 2017 using a little math trick to argue that women are less intelligent than men. This is the same man who gave a speech YEARS earlier saying women aren't smart enough for STEM. In other emails he told Epstein about a woman he was "mentoring" that he wanted to sleep with. Epstein called himself Summers' "wing man."
Summers just resigned from Harvard over all of this.
David Gelernter, a Yale computer science professor, recommended a female undergrad for a job by describing her to Epstein as a "v small good-looking blonde." Yale pulled him from teaching.
Jeremy Rubin, an MIT researcher and Bitcoin developer, emailed Epstein wondering if there's a game where women can outperform men, adding "unless women are inherently inferior to the maximally talented man at all tasks" with a winky face.
You seeing the pattern yet?
Because I'm about to show you something worse. These emails aren't just about what these men believed. They're about what they FUNDED.
I went through every documented donation, investment, and grant Epstein ever made. Every single one. Here's what I found.
$9.1 million to Harvard.
$6.5 million to establish a genetics lab.
$850,000 to MIT, including $525,000 specifically to cryptocurrency development.
$3 million invested in Coinbase.
$500,000 in Blockstream.
$250,000 to Arizona State for a physics project.
Millions more to exclusive retreats, networking dinners, and scientific conferences where the combined net worth of attendees equaled the wealth of 60% of Americans.
He funded genetics. Evolutionary biology. AI. Bitcoin. Consciousness research. Physics.
You know what was NOT on the list?
Women's health research. Maternal health. Reproductive health. Endometriosis. Menopause. Gender equity programs. Women's leadership development. Scholarships for women in STEM. Any program designed to advance women. NONE of it. Zero. Not a single dollar.
The man who wrote "no really smart women, none" put his money exactly where his beliefs were.
But it gets so much darker.
Epstein didn't fund genetics because he cared about curing diseases. He funded genetics because he was a eugenicist. He had a plan to use his 33,000 square foot ranch in New Mexico as a "baby farm" where he would impregnate up to 20 women at a time to "seed the human race" with his DNA. He discussed this openly with top scientists at dinner parties and conferences. He donated $120,000 to the Worldwide Transhumanist Association. He wanted to "perfect the human genome."
He was obsessed with blue eyes as a marker of intelligence. He literally kept a list of attendees at a science conference with their eye color noted. He wanted to use genetic engineering to enhance women's sex drives. He emailed a cognitive scientist about genetically engineering Black people to be "smarter."
In 2018, in an email thread with the subject line "Designer babies," he agreed to fund research into creating genetically modified children. The pitch described achieving "first live birth... possibly a human clone."
This is what $6.5 million to Harvard's genetics lab was about. This is what the "science conferences" were about. A convicted child sex trafficker bankrolling the science he believed would let him breed a "superior" race using women's bodies as vessels.
And the cryptocurrency? That wasn't philanthropy either.
Epstein funded Bitcoin's core development infrastructure at the exact moment it needed money most. When the Bitcoin Foundation collapsed in 2015, his money through MIT kept the developers paid. His associates proposed using "tumbled bitcoin transactions" to erase financial trails and offered "Snowden-level counter-surveillance." One of them wrote about "offshore hedge fund" deals settled in untraceable crypto.
Crypto gave Epstein what he always wanted: the ability to move money without anyone seeing where it went.
So let's be very clear about what we're looking at.
Genetics = control over women's bodies and reproduction.
AI = a future built by men who think women are "weak" and "a distraction."
Crypto = untraceable money to fund it all without accountability.
Exclusive networking events = keeping women out of the rooms where these decisions were made.
Every single thing he funded served one purpose: power over people. Especially women.
And the institutions TOOK the money. Harvard took $9.1 million from a eugenicist. MIT took $850,000 from a man who wanted to breed humans like livestock. And none of that money went to women's health, maternal research, endometriosis, or menopause.
We can SEE the results of this system.
Only 8.8% of NIH research funding goes to women's health. That number has actually DECREASED over the last decade. In nearly three quarters of cases where a disease primarily affects one gender, the funding favors men. Twice as much money goes to "men's diseases" as "women's diseases." Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women in this country and only a third of clinical trial participants are female.
Menopause affects half the global population and the NIH doesn't even have a unique funding code for it. They have one for prostate cancer. But not menopause.
This is not a coincidence. This is what happens when the people controlling the money believe there are "no really smart women. None."
Epstein is dead. But the system he helped build and fund is alive and well. It's in every boardroom where the one woman gets asked to "help with culture." It's in every conference where women are invited to "soften the room." It's in every lab where women's health is an afterthought because the men writing the checks decided it didn't matter.
Deepak Chopra told Epstein to "bring your girls." Peter Attia joked about oral sex with a convicted child sex trafficker. And these scientists were emailing each other that women are too vain and too dumb to sit at their table while funding eugenics and untraceable money systems.
Men who think this way don't just exist in Epstein's inbox. They exist in your industry. They exist in your boardroom. They're the ones telling you that you're overreacting.
The only difference is now we have it in writing.
We're not overreacting. We never were.
Susan Hyatt
