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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a nutshell, can you describe the book and why it’s controversial? Your subject title intrigued me.[/quote]
The author went from a wealthy, privileged childhood to an even more wealthy and privileged adulthood. She wondered what made her feel like she had to be perfect all the time. Her husband had a significant financial stake in a business that was promoting the use of psychedelic drugs by patients in therapy. She felt like there was some dark reason behind her quest for perfection, so she decided to try drug assisted psychotherapy. Under the influence of the drugs she either hallucinated or recovered actual memories of repeated violent sexual abuse at the hands of one of her middle school teachers. Despite a heavy saturation of celebrities promoting her book and her whole hometown being aware of the book, no one has corroborated her account and zero other victims have come forward, which was very unexpected since the assaults recounted in her book were brazen and sexual offenders with easy access to kids tend to have multiple victims. There is one classmate of hers who had a rather traumatic childhood and suffered remarkably similar sexual assaults, but at the hands of a completely different teacher. The classmate didn’t need psychedelics to remember the details of her attacks. [b]The attorney for the author says that the Times even trying to fact check the author’s account is an unacceptable attack on a victim of sexual assault.[/quote][/b]

It is the height of irony - and bald faced grift- that this particularly attorney is representing Griffin. He usually is the one *bringing* defamation claims, and now he’s suddenly on the other side supporting the attack of this poor teacher who is likely having his life upended, [b]and also calling the other woman who seems to have been legitimately a victim (and who works at a minimum wage job) a ‘fabulist’ for noting that their stories align, implying Griffin might have co-opted her experience.[/b]

Disgusting on all levels. People are gross [/quote]

I read the book and was uncomfortable with many aspects of it, but holy crap was I put off by the bolded.  In fact, I kept re-reading that part of the article, because I was sure I was misreading or misinterpreting something.  But, no.  Truly vile.

It seems highly unlikely to be a coincidence that there were 2 such similar patterns of repeated assault at the same school at the same time.  It does seem an awful lot like Griffin's recovered memory may well be someone else's reality.[/quote]

It is highly unlikely that this teacher was a one time offender, as the police noted that they were surprised no one else came forward.

It is also highly unlikely that this teacher would target a wealthy, connected, popular student as his sole victim. Abusers target people who are vulnerable, like that other woman who was in foster care. The whole story is ridiculous. [/quote]

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