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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Marriage in "Th' Good Ol' Days"
Message-ID: <338@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 16:17:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 16:17:34 1985
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frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye) says:
>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.
>
> (Numerous other examples.)
>
>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

My great grandmother gave my grandmother, my mother, me and all my
sisters the same advice.  She said if her husband had ever come home
with "liquor on his breath" she would have tied him up in the sheets
and taken the cast iron skillet to him.  She let him know where she
stood and what she expected of him.  Since he died after about 7 years
of marriage, leaving her with five kids to support--which she did all
by herself, and then raised one of her son's kids too--I don't think
she ever had to do this, but I don't doubt that she would have.  She
was a feisty old lady, and I think you had to be to survive in that
day and age.

Ever hear of the "survivalist" theory?  Namely, that approximately one
quarter of the population will survive in a disaster situation
(earthquake, hurricane, volanco, war, etc.).  The theory goes that one
quarter of the population have the personality traits that allow them
to think on their feet, get things done, take advantage of every
opportunity, and basically survive.  The other three quarters have
nervous breakdowns, hysterically demand help from anyone else present,
or refuse to believe anything bad has happened and try to go about
their daily business even though their daily business isn't there any
more.

Speculation has it that because of welfare programs, various types of
support groups, psychology, etc., those non-survivors in the
population are increasing and putting a big drain on the survivors in
the population. (No flames please, I am not against welfare programs,
support groups or psychology.  This is just "speculation" after all.)

You see, non-survivors depend on survivors to keep them alive.  And
with all this "you-gotta-help-the-poor-and-underprivileged" stuff
around, survivors are getting the idea that they have to keep all
those non-survivors alive.  Well, I must admit, if I could help
someone who couldn't help themselves, I would.  However, when it comes
to bashing a third party's brains in just because a second party
doesn't want to do it themselves, I draw the line.  If they are too 
stupid to defend themselves and/or leave, I wash my hands of them.

Give me my great grandmother's cast iron skillet any day.  You go take
care of your own household.
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                                                       Terry Grevstad
                                         Network Research Corporation
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