Daniel Peterson wrote:harmony wrote:I suggest you read the entire thread. Several people have already commented on the reviews.
I've read the comments, such as they were.
Have you read the reviews? Have you read even one of the reviews?
Yup, read them all the first time you posted them. So what? They were then, and they are now, still just someone's opinion.
harmony wrote:Since the rest of the family appears to have been oblivious
Whereas you, being much more aware and better placed than they were, know that the alleged abuse actually occurred?
That's why I said "alleged" abuse, Daniel. Or did you skip right over that part?
Having been a childhood victim of abuse myself, of which my parents were blissfully unaware, I can sympathize. Of course Martha's family was oblivious. If the abuse really happened and they were aware of it, it would be really stupid to admit it now. So the logical response in either case would be to deny and to seek to discredit the one who aired the family's dirty laundry.
I didn't bury mine though. I remember still to this day, as does my younger sister (different brothers, same sequence of events though). I didn't tell anyone though, unlike my sister, who stupidly informed my mother of her abuse when it was happening. My mother, of course, didn't believe her, since the abuser was my younger brother, the golden child who was born after a series of miscarriages and still births. I, on the other hand, threw him bodily out of the house when I caught him red handed. Momma wasn't happy with me for a while, but it was worth it.
And if you never read his review, you'll be able much more easily to persist in your conviction that "hearsay" is all he offers.
Ignorance is bliss.
My mother thought so too. Amazing what you can forget, if you really try.