That truly is a great distinction Gonzo: Is she seeking absolution or making amends?
And therein is the difference between the two.
I DO applaud that, without coercion and I'm sure to some social exclusion from the "victims club" she decided to come clean. That's not easy and she did it. Is it enough? No, and in that I'm also firm: Since there is no deterent and there are no programs for this she's gotten off scot free.
A false accusation is akin to crying "fire" in a crowded theatre. You may not have personally trampled the person who died, but you sure as hell caused it.
I've heard the "let's water it down" kind of thinking that "it's just a lie, are you going to imprison everyone who ever told a lie - haven't YOU lied" argument.
It fails to empathize and understand the full effect of a false accusation - which is "strange" because" the very reason to make such a "go for the throat" accusation is the devestating effects it has on the accused, and the victimhood lionization that happens to the accuser.
The man falsely accused, and this can be demonstrated, becomes a social, legal, (often) financial, and certainly political 2nd class citizen - and while it can be over come after YEARS of time passing, when it's vis a vis gender issues or another false accusation - he's toast.
This author needs not only to go to everyone she told she was molested and tell them what she did - but if anyone else confided in her that they lied and have not 'fessed up - she needs to drop a dime on them too.
I'm betting - to a degree of certainty, that if it were a man who knew men who were guilty of molestation, she'd sure as HELL want that man to speak up - either voluntarily, or by threat of legal peril.
Lastly, I love how she excuses and "is friends with" the authors of a book that caused HUGE devastation in so many people's lives - but were a book to have been written that had imprisoned women, destroyed families, and estranged mothers from their children - she'd be singing a different tune.
She's sorry for her PART in what happened - let's be fair - but the "indoctrination" and "socialisation" she's talking about is still wide-spread and ongoing in many of the circles she still frequents - and let's face it - she'd rather others suffer, even in prison (you know ... REAL people ... those with vaginas) than "out" them and their efforts to dehumanize men, fathers, and anyone who stands in an woman's way when she's "upset".
She's sorry HER bigotry caused pain - but not enough to call her fellow Klan members racists in public.
Steven