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From: frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Marriage in "Th' Good Ol' Days"
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 15:44:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 15:44:50 1985
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I'm really not as old as I claim to be in some of my "off
the wall" postings. I turned 33 just about a week or so ago.
Reading a posting on the topic made me remember a few tails
I've heard about wifebeaters and child abusers. These stories
were told to me by my parents and grandparents.

Seems there were a few cases of child and wife beatings back
then that didn't make the public record and the local papers.
There was a lady my mother knew who waited 'til the ol' son
of a snake went to sleep it off. She proceeded to sew him in
the sheets and beat him with an ax handle. He remebered from
then on that he would eventually have to pay for his foolish-
ness and cruelty. He didn't beat her or the kids any more.
There was another lady who used a similar means to end her
grief with the old man. She sewed him in and poured hot bacon
grease in his ears. Willie Nelson says he had to learn the hard
way from his first wife. He quit coming home drunk and beating
his wife after she sewed him in the bed and made a messy paste out
of him. But, she made doubly sure it would never happen again.
She took off with all his clothes and the car too. My folks also
spoke of women who's brothers took care of the problem "inlaw"
who beat their little sister. I personally wouldn't let any ass
beat on a sister of mine without shooting him in both knees and
both elbows before I killed him. But, I doubt I'll ever have to 
do that because my sister can come up with enough tortures of her
own to handle the situation. Yeah, I can learn a lot from my
folks by just asking. They even told me about how rolling pins
and cast iron skillets were employed as attitude adjusters for
abusive husbands/fathers. 

There wasn't anything that was all that great about the so called
good old days but, then people didn't figure the law was gonna
get there quick enough to do 'em any good. Now, people won't do
a damned thing to help protect themselves. People back then would.
I think its about time the trend away from the old philosophy was
halted. Its time for everyone to take a couple of steps toward
knowing how to bust someone's head instead of letting the jerk
be abusive and cruel.




Anybody got any feedback along these lines? Mail or post, I don't
care  which...



I'm for attitude adjustment (right on top of the head with a
sawed of piece of piss-elm pick handle) for wife and child beaters.
That also goes for damned belligerant barroom brawlers.


This has been a public service anouncement from the Maplewood Mind
Moulders Association.                         Tom Frye    President