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Edmund_Kemper
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A lot of people (including feminists) perpetuate this myth that until the 1970s, domestic violence was ignored by society, ignored by police and ignored by judges and it was seen as something between the husband and wife that wasn’t our business. This is a myth. The idea that society ignored and was indifferent toward domestic violence prior to the 70s is a myth. Even over 200 years ago, society was against it. In fact, throughout most of human history, it was completely frowned on and condemned by society. in fact, woman beaters were much more hated a century ago than they are nowadays. Today, if you beat your wife, people just want you jailed and yeah they’ll wanna kick your ass but only few will want you dead. Back a century ago, people would’ve tried to lynch you or violently beat you with an inch of your life. Telling someone back then that you’re a wife beater is like telling someone today you’re a child molester or telling someone in the 1690s you’re a witch.
In the early 1900s, there were MANY frequent cases of men being arrested for wife beatings. It was common for them to be arrested and there were also many cases where they were victims of a vigilante attack. Many wife beaters were tarred and feathered, dunked in water, whipped, violently beaten, or even lynched for what they did. Although a small amount of women participated in these vigilante attacks, these attacks were mostly done by men, sometimes the wife’s family or sometimes neighbors or posses. In the late 1800s/early 1900s, some states started to have flogging on a whip post as a punishment for domestic abusers (and many Americans supported this) and it was done because it would be an eye for an eye and they thought jailing them would get rid of the family breadwinner who provides for the family. So they did this to deter domestic abuse. Some judges did the flogging themself or allowed the battered wife to do it.
“Dissatisfaction with the statutory sentences led judges to condone extralegal violence against wife beaters, even occasionally partici- pating in such violence themselves. This hands-on approach was cele- brated, often in ways that emphasized the manly aggression of the judge’s conduct. For example, Alderman John F. Donahue, a judge in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, became famous “all over the country and in Europe, too” beginning the day “he first descended from the bench, tore off his coat, and soundly thrashed a chronic wife beater.” He “received scores of letters from men and women thanking him for what he has done for oppressed and abused wives,” and even received numerous awards from humane societies.In Donahue’s view,
“You can usually knock all ideas of violence out of a man’s head by treating him violently, and if every wife beater was thrashed, was bruised and pained to the same extent as he bruised and pained his wife, and a little more for good measure, there would be less wife beating.”
Male domestic violence victims were known about back then but were ridiculed and made fun of and judges often were lenient on female domestic abusers and sometimes even showed approval towards female domestic abusers. For example, I read one situation where a judge praised a female domestic abuser for beating her husband for coming home drunk and another judge who praised a foid for beating her husband who came home too late at night. The judge said “good job. We ought to have more women like you”.
the hatred towards wife beaters was so bad, that they were presumably viewed as worse than child molesters back a century ago. Many people back then wanted wife beaters killed or executed, some tried to violently beat one and tell him to apologize to his voice and promise never to harm her again and to treat her kindly
in 1700s France for example, male domestic abuse victims were forced to wear outlandish outfits and ride backwards on a donkey as a humiliating punishment.
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In the early 1900s, there were MANY frequent cases of men being arrested for wife beatings. It was common for them to be arrested and there were also many cases where they were victims of a vigilante attack. Many wife beaters were tarred and feathered, dunked in water, whipped, violently beaten, or even lynched for what they did. Although a small amount of women participated in these vigilante attacks, these attacks were mostly done by men, sometimes the wife’s family or sometimes neighbors or posses. In the late 1800s/early 1900s, some states started to have flogging on a whip post as a punishment for domestic abusers (and many Americans supported this) and it was done because it would be an eye for an eye and they thought jailing them would get rid of the family breadwinner who provides for the family. So they did this to deter domestic abuse. Some judges did the flogging themself or allowed the battered wife to do it.
“Dissatisfaction with the statutory sentences led judges to condone extralegal violence against wife beaters, even occasionally partici- pating in such violence themselves. This hands-on approach was cele- brated, often in ways that emphasized the manly aggression of the judge’s conduct. For example, Alderman John F. Donahue, a judge in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, became famous “all over the country and in Europe, too” beginning the day “he first descended from the bench, tore off his coat, and soundly thrashed a chronic wife beater.” He “received scores of letters from men and women thanking him for what he has done for oppressed and abused wives,” and even received numerous awards from humane societies.In Donahue’s view,
“You can usually knock all ideas of violence out of a man’s head by treating him violently, and if every wife beater was thrashed, was bruised and pained to the same extent as he bruised and pained his wife, and a little more for good measure, there would be less wife beating.”
Male domestic violence victims were known about back then but were ridiculed and made fun of and judges often were lenient on female domestic abusers and sometimes even showed approval towards female domestic abusers. For example, I read one situation where a judge praised a female domestic abuser for beating her husband for coming home drunk and another judge who praised a foid for beating her husband who came home too late at night. The judge said “good job. We ought to have more women like you”.
the hatred towards wife beaters was so bad, that they were presumably viewed as worse than child molesters back a century ago. Many people back then wanted wife beaters killed or executed, some tried to violently beat one and tell him to apologize to his voice and promise never to harm her again and to treat her kindly
in 1700s France for example, male domestic abuse victims were forced to wear outlandish outfits and ride backwards on a donkey as a humiliating punishment.
more information:
Society’s Acceptance of Domestic Violence?
Every day we in the United States are told that before the rise of the domestic violence industry in the 1980s domestic violence agai...
unknownmisandry.blogspot.com
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