Hello Stephen and all:
The publication of this article leaves me with mixed feelings. I do for the most part, having considered the evidence, suspect that a substantial portion of "recovered memories" of abuse are fabricated under the influence of overeager therapists, dramatic and upsetting media presentations on sexual abuse, and the like. But regardless of the status of "recovered memories" the fact is that child sexual abuse happens and it does have some relationship to the patriarchal structure of society. There is plenty of never repressed memories and physical evidence to support this.
That being said, as someone who does want my students to exercise skepticism about "recovered" recollections of sex abuse, alien abductions, past lives, NDAs and the like, it also pains me that this article was published in a magazine that features special report articles on why the wage gap between men and women does not REALLY exist (featuring ONLY verbal arguments, no figures or charts or data of any kind) This seems to be a publication that is comprised of mostly ideological rhetoric with pretenses of passing itself of as an academic quarterly.
With friends like these...
Nancy Melucci
LACCD
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