I actually think McArdle is being pretty mature at taking a risk in writing this articles. Kudos!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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McMegan is awful, just awful, but at least she's no longer employed by The Atlantic. Still, no one can read her every day and live, so we've all but given up trying. Let's just be glad her upwards failure has leveled off.
Posts here will likely remain few and far between, as will my tweets. M. is still at his place and twitter and now also Whiskey Fire, and Clem maintains well deserved alumnus privileges.
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- brad
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6 comments:
Every comment I can think to make is banworthy, the only clean version of which is "it explains her relationship with PS."
Bah, that's just another typical exercise in narcissism. She once thought pedophiles "should be shot," but now somebody she knows turns out to be pedophile, so she has a change of heart. This same self-centered thinking is at the heart of nearly every issue she writes about. She's like a child.
Yeah, there's that. Maybe she gets there for the wrong reasons...
She's writing as if pedophilia is an inborn trait that someone successfully or unsuccessfully resists, and this urge can be palliated by human interaction with adults. And that by "isolating" them due to our disgust we risk pushing them into action. She doesn't have the faintest idea what she's talking about. Most pedophiles were molested and/or abused and they are re-enacting the trauma, with themselves in the power role. That's not the whole story, of course, but it's a major factor. Just like many people who were beaten by their parents beat their owm kids. The only way they know to express or seek love is through abuse.
This is far, far too complicated and painful a subject to dash off a post and sit back while her idiot commenters stroke their--chins--and bloviate.
One commenter says, "It's only by the grace of god that we're not like that." That's the wishful thinking of people who don't want to worry about rampant child abuse, who approve of authoritarian and patriarchal parenting.
Idiots.
Well, I dunno about that. Not all of the abused become abusers. Perhaps there IS something innate, but it requires a trigger as well. Or perhaps we all have the trigger and that's the innate part. I don't think those kinds of details are as important as recognizing that it's more than just a moral failing.
What happens is that some people are given or have ways to release the internal pressures that build up. Alice Miller says that if people have someone to care about them, some thing or person to give love to and receive happiness from, they manage to avoid becoming monsters. She says people with children usually work out their issues through their kids; people without kids work them out on the outside world. Some do both.
I'm condensing about eight books into a few sentences, so I'm leaving a lot out, of course.
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