Alan Vaughn #sexist

Alan Vaughn #sexist theantifeminist.com

Since today is ‘International Misandrist’s Women’s Day’ I thought that This book review by Robert Sheaffer on a very [in]famous publication: “The Courage to Heal – A Guide for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse” by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis (Published in 1988 – Harper & Rowe) would be a nice way for us to reflect on what this ‘special day’ means to us, not only from the MRA perspective, but as normal, everyday decent blokes—

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Seldom has any author so directly declared the unreliability of what she has to say, and yet seldom has any author's controversial message been embraced with such uncritical fervor. Did someone bestow upon these authors a "Get Out of Critical Scrutiny Free" card? The ideas in this book seem to have enjoyed an astonishing exemption from the critical evaluation one would have expected such an unfounded and controversial doctrine to receive in various areas: psychology, academia, and among the educated public at large. This is all the more remarkable given the authors' complete candor about the lack of any solid intellectual foundation.

The real reason that The Courage to Heal has enjoyed such an astonishing exemption from critical scrutiny for so long is that it has sailed under the banner of Womens Studies, that most sacrosanct of contemporary Sacred Cows. In many universities, any public opposition to or even criticism of a "womens issue" is career-limiting, sometimes career-ending. This has given feminist writers complete license to promulgate foolish theories, inaccurate statements, even outright falsehoods, with little fear of being compelled to defend anything they say. The consequences to society have been enormous, with the tragedies caused by the "recovered memories" movement being merely the most obvious and visible.

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