Ordinary sexual abuse is something people are familiar with. But cognitive abuse, where you mess up someone’s thinking, is rarely thought about. These things are separate but run on somewhat parallel tracks. There are tens of millions of cognitively abused children and the results can last a lifetime. Nothing trivial about that. The other interesting point is that 35 years ago nobody wanted to think about child abuse in Boston, just as now few people want to think about what the schools are doing to children. If nobody wants to think about it, then it will continue.
Tucker Carlson, this month, is doing a bunch of programs about what has happened to men. Why are all the statistics so negative? I think there are instructional methods that are more kind to girls, but difficult for boys. So the war on boys has been all too successful. The men having trouble now were damaged, 20 and 30 years ago, by what Engelmann calls “academic child abuse.”
I agree that it is also an often devastating type of chlld abuse. But it is not the same as rape of a child. Sorry, not sorry.