This is Joann Wypijewski, writing in about 1996, when the โwomen are only prey, men only predatorsโ narrative was just getting started, right when prudishness was beginning to ramp up again:
But what did they see in him? The question, overt or indirect, has riveted reporters and TV presenters. Itโs funny how the opposite questionโwhat did he see in them?โis never asked, only implicitly answered in the assumption that he was โlooking for victimsโ and they were easy โprey.โ Thereโs more than a touch of racism behind the media prurience, since, except that so many of them are white, the young women in this case mostly swam in the same stream of trouble as Williams. It would have been stranger if they hadnโt found each other.
This is from the book What We Donโt Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life.
I think itโd be interesting if we let the โfeministsโ succeed and make the age of majority for women to 30 or 35 as they seem to wish. Thatโd have very fun-to-observe societal implications. Iโm kind of for that just to see what happens.