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I... thought it was a reasonable-enough counter to "but but but male authors"? (Although I still believe the wider claim fails for various unrelated reasons, most obviously the fact that girls' reading has declined in exact parallel with boys'.) And I was surprised and impressed to see that level of nuanced critical thinking around this issue, and I believe I said so at the time.
I'm not 100% following, but I don't think there's any claim that clinicians didn't recognize she had PPD, just that the risk assessments were perfunctory/ wrong, the level of clinical interest tepid, the treatments actively harmful, and the support that could have saved her children (like the inpatient or day programs she sought) too under-resourced to be available to her.
All of which imho feeds into a steel-mannable (though certainly not airtight) case that overall dismissive attitudes toward a female-only condition, leading to institutional under-resourcing and deprioritization of research/ training, were contributing factors in this case: a case about second- and third-order consequences, not first-order. A case that, once again, I am not necessarily endorsing, just steelmanning because that was the explicit request that opened this conversation.
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