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Carol
Tavris
Hysteria trumps evidence.
Silence is power.
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for
their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing
group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if
they hug a crying child. As in all moral
panics, an accusation is enough to destroy
a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
Memory is, in a word, lousy. It is a traitor
at worst, a mischief-maker at best. It gives
us vivid recollections of events that could
never have happened, and it
obscures critical details of events that did.
Just as wives aren't the selfish careerists of media
stereotype...neither are husbands 'brutish, uncaring,
lazy slobs who are dead set against change.' Today's
fathers...are closely involved in all aspects of their
children's care...Also contrary to stereotype, men's partici-
pation in household chores has risen dramatically.
