{"id":649,"date":"2012-09-28T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:58:23","slug":"how-to-demonize-quite-ordinary-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"How to demonize &#8216;quite ordinary women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">As mentioned last week, the preponderance of women among the Edenton Seven was one of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=638\">many curiosities<\/a>\u00a0that apparently failed to burden the prosecution with second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Mary DeYoung addresses the issue in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_e8ZkJBtz0EC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=mary+de+young&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=wvPukPV0lL&amp;sig=uAj_anuKW8yAu2oV9rgE17faurI&amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;q=female&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic<\/a>\u201d (2004):<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBy the 1980s&#8230; research studies consistently found that child sexual abuse by women was a statistical rarity&#8230;.To accuse (female day-care workers of ritual abuse), child-savers had the daunting challenge of fashioning folk devils out of quite ordinary women engaged in traditional women\u2019s work, and then persuading the public that evil had lurked unnoticed for so long behind such homely facades&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe answer was simple: belief trumps gender. Women who are satanists do what no other women even imagine&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 28, 2012 As mentioned last week, the preponderance of women among the Edenton Seven was one of\u00a0many curiosities\u00a0that apparently failed to burden the prosecution with second thoughts. Mary DeYoung addresses the issue in \u201cThe Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic\u201d (2004): \u201cBy the 1980s&#8230; research studies consistently found that child sexual abuse by women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}