Matthew Dimitri (@matthewdimitri.bsky.social)

Michael Tracey, on Red Scare podcast with Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachyian, says “I’m just gonna reject that trafficking even exists anymore as a coherent concept.” Tracey: “And just like trafficking as a concept now has grown so elastic… that Epstein as an issue has legally kind of fertilized that, right?” Dasha: “Well, do they not have full-ass adults saying they were trafficked?”*Laughs cruelly Tracey: “Yeah, of course. Women in their 20s who took a free luxury vacation to a private island in the Caribbean have this massive incentive right where they can reframe stuff that happened 20 years ago as trafficking and bam! You get millions of dollars tax free… Diddy was charged initially with trafficking and conspiracy, he was the only trafficker somehow. So you can have trafficking and conspiracy as one. According to the new framework, I mean… I’m just gonna reject that trafficking even exists anymore as a coherent concept, it’s infinitely elastic in terms of its applicability. So you have a situation where women who at the time contemporaneously would have regarded themselves as doing something consensually have now been trained by lawyers and pundits and podcasters that they can reinterpret things as actually having been coercive that they just inherently wouldn’t have been cognizant of it at the time. And then that would also turn them now into a survivor where they can do survivor-themed things and conduct survivor-themed advocacy and get survivor-sized financial rewards from it. I mean it’s just like human nature that there’s gonna be now a gravitational pull toward doing that. So it just has radically expanded the scope of the kind of sexual victimization people can claim that they were subjected to.”

Michael Tracey jokes with Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova that he wants to identify the Cornell 7 rape survivor to rape her. Tracey also mocks childhood sexual abuse survivor and comedian Margaret Cho who advocates for rape survivors. Tracey: “What made the Lindsay Clancy resonate is similar to what made the Cornell 7 resonate is in that what these women were doing was directing their ire at me, in the form of these videos, I think some Real Housewife person did it… and a bunch of others, uh, Margaret Cho like a comedian did a whole instagram thing on it… it was like this horrible journalist Michael Tracey says bluh, blah, blah. Her theory was the reason why I was seeking to identify Jane Doe was because I wanted to…” Dasha: “Rape her.” Tracey: “Maybe that’s what she was eluding to but the way she phrased it was that I wanted to find out if she was pretty enough to deserve…” Anna: “Be worthy of rape.” Tracey: “Yes, and that I wanted all my guy friends to gather round so we could all ogle at her.” Anna: “Well, the answer is yes, but…” Tracey: “I’m not even gonna go there but um no, her physical attractiveness, her lack of.. yeah, I mean, she seems cool. I’ve said this before, she seems a little quirky. So, I don’t know. I never would have thought to name her or identify her just as some kind of like vendetta right? First of all she was 20 when it happened. I mean everybody is pretty stupid when they’re 20. It’s like something that they do that ends up erupting into this controversy that they probably couldn’t have anticipated to end up defining their life in any real way. So that wasn’t the motivating factor.” Anna: “The funny thing with her is that um even though she became this symbol of women and their trauma in general she is not in fact the like representative woman because she was a little quirked up but kind of a chungus…” Dasha: “6 feet tall bodybuilder.” Anna: “Amazonian, yeah.” Tracey tried doxxing the Cornell 7 rape survivor.