Re: Full description right here...

Still, if it can remove some of the outright hate against us, it helps.
People who hate something irrationally and without thought are a lot less open to the idea of acceptance.

That is true, but I hope she doesn't try to imply in her book that MAA's have to be anti-contact/anti-choice in order to be decent people worthy of acceptance. And the fact that she appears to be critical of websites like GC and seems to accuse them of "enabling" our bad side when such sites have immense benefit for us tells us a lot about this woman and her objectives. I take this as an implication that she thinks the pro-choice side of the coin encourages us to break the law, which is totally untrue, as virtually all of us on these boards agree with following the laws even if we don't agree with them. And the fact that she, unlike Levine and Epstein, gave youth rights short shrift in this book makes it clear that she is hardly a visionary. She may be against hatred, but she isn't doing much to foster understanding, especially if she expects us to make a Faustian bargain with the public and advocate all of the usual mainstream nonsense about sexuality being unequivacably harmful to young people. She is not the first person to do this (Heather Peterson has done it also), and such people have never succeeded in moving us any closer to acceptance because they ask us to give up our movement for change and try to convince us that the prevailing hysterical and negative attitude towards youth freedom and youth sexuality are, for the most part, accurate. Her message is basically, "Hatred of them is wrong, but so is freedom of choice." The lack of freedom of choice is the main reason why the hatred exists; it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

I understand that because of all the hatred and misunderstanding aimed at our community by the media, some of us are happy to receive a few bones thrown at us by someone who does not feel that hatred is right. And that is a positive thing. But until more people afford us a critical re-evaluation of society's attitudes towards young people and start challenging the negative attitudes towards youth sexuality, the hatred is going to continue.

Now to wait to see what those reading the whole book have to say about what her message really is.

Indeed. And I hope I am proven wrong. In fact, I will be totally ecstatic if I am proven wrong, but considering the table of contents of her book that DeeG provided for us elsewhere in this thread, I'm not sure how likely the description of her book is in being wrong. Minstrel, I hope your faith and trust in this woman will be justified. And for anyone in the community who says, "We can't expect anything better than this right now," let's keep in mind that other courageous authors have indeed given us better, even if none of them go so far as to support the idea that intergenerational love can be just as beautiful and mutually beneficial as same age group love. I know we can't expect the whole pie at this point in time, and I understand that all authors have to be very cautious and somewhat conservative in their approach to this subject right now in order to get published and to keep their jobs, but I don't think we should embrace any writer as being a friend of this community if all they can give us in exchange for our patience and cooperation is a few crumbs. In other words, though I do indeed want the hatred to end, I also want to see a critical evaluation of society's attitudes towards young people.