Comac McCarthy was a groomer: former gf reveals they met when she was 16 and he was 42

[afeelingunacted]

Cormac McCarthy began relationship with 16-year-old while 42 and married

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- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM

• Augusta Britt, now 64, has come forward and revealed to Vanity Fair that she and McCarthy began a relationship when she was 16 and he was 42
• They met at a motel pool and she recognized him from the

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[marywebgirl]

Jesus this sort of thing really was just normalized in the 70s.

[afeelingunacted]

A lot of people I know hated it but I thought The Girls by Emma Cline, despite supposedly being about the Manson family, was actually just about how the sexual revolution of the 70s was preteen and teen girls being groomed by older men.

[moddchicc]

Emma was 'pen pals' with club owner/radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer when she was in middle school and he was in his mid-50s. She probably used some of her real experience for the book. Rodney was a big figure in the Hollywood party scene in the 1960s-80s.

[slinkydinks]

People still trying to act like it's "normal" now. 😒

Society is crazy, because tell me why people will cover up and even actively enable groomers like this, and these stories emerge again and again. Yet drag queens and trans people are the so-called predators??? How are you gonna fully dream up a boogeyman when the culprit is RIGHT there?

[notoriousreign]

A daughter the same age as her?! Jesus…

[manu19]

Having a kid the same age makes the whole thing even worse in an already disgusting situation like that basically means he was probably looking at his daughter's friends before, potentially thinking "damn! Her 16 year old girlfriends from school are hot! Id hit them" 🤮🤮🤮

[solsty]

I think a considerable number of men think exactly the same way about 16 year old girls. Many even say it out loud.

[afrosamurai1089]

There is a male academic at this very moment drafting their "...but there is no undoing the influence of McCarthy's penmanship on the tapestry of American literature" op-ed.

[anterrabre]

Yep.

[dulcius]

forever on team men should start in jail and have to work their way out