Re: Let’s Lock Up 14% of All Men Who Have Ever Married! (wasFeminism and the False Memory Syndrome)
On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
I believe what Yoshie is doing is what’s called “trolling.” The
essence of her latest argument seems to be that we shouldn’t punish crime,
including rape, because we don’t have large enough prisons. This is a fairly
sordid and desperate style of argument.
No, that’s not what Yoshie’s doing at all. She’s trying to put child
sexual abuse into some perspective. If its incidence is really
declining, then all the anxiety around it is overblown - or, was
never fully rational in the first place.
I don’t get why it’s so important that Herbert Apthetker may or may
not have abused his daughter. If it is a real social problem to the
degree some claim, then theirs is just one case among many. Is the
real cause for concern an effort to dredge up some dirt about a dead
Stalinist?
Doug