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Way to go, Susan!

This reminds me of "face down" by the red jumpsuit apparatus.

It hurts to think women were treated like this but according to the Magda Carta of the 13th century wives and their children were owned by their husbands. Hard to take in. My history professor told us in 1991 that legally, it had never been taken off the books. It was like that for my grandma when she was beaten by her husband. You could go to the police but they were men and they'd say a woman probably brought it on. My grandma stood up in my grandpa's chuch and the people he beat them.

Songsmirth 1 year ago

@Songsmirth

"were" treated like that? Here in New Zealand, they are still treated like that. 3 times I called the police onto a neighbour who was beating his fiancé and 3 times the police did NOTHING.

policemanaaron 1 year ago

@policemanaaron I'm really sorry to hear that somewhere in the world that women are still treated like this. Just curious but if you disrespect the police why do you have the screen name you do? I don't get it. Women need to stand up for themselves and it sounds like your neighbor's fiance needs to get a spine. I know it's easy to say but one day she might be beaten to death and it would be her own fault. Women that take on any broken men can just expect to support them all their lives.

Songsmirth 1 year ago

@Songsmirth

I'm not sure it is fair to accuse me of "disrespect[ing]" the police just because I make a few pointed criticisms of police misconduct.

My choice of screen name for YT was chosen as part of a running joke among my friends when I asked for suggestions at a time when a local drug dealer (and worse) was accepted into the New Zealand police force despite our letters to the police warning them of his criminal history and shocking character (he's a diagnosed pathological liar).

policemanaaron 1 year ago

@Songsmirth

She was moving back in with my neighbour after the 3 police call-out on the day that I moved away and I don't know what has happened to her. But, I can't imagine it ended well. For some reason that I will never understand, women usually seem to go for the liars, the cheats and the abusers.

New Zealand has a serious domestic violence problem and it's only getting worse every year. Indeed, Indeed, New Zealand's rate of violent crime is considerably higher than that of the USA.

policemanaaron 1 year ago

@policemanaaron Not arguing but you need to think who the people were who were the, "criminals." Many of them were people unfairly judged for horribly small acts because England was trying to populate their territories. Yes, some were legiment criminals but many weren't. "Criminals" at that time weren't allowed to defend themselves or even their lawyers weren't allowed to speak up for them. It was a given that they were guilty. See, "Garrow's Law." A wonderful, historically correct series.

Songsmirth 3 weeks ago

@policemanaaron I've come across women like this. They are getting rare because there is backup for them and other women will help them but like you said, there still are broken ones and I'll give you my opinion. I think it comes from our mothering instinct. They think someone needs them and that they can try to "fix" them. What they will not get is that you can't fix someone but the men. . in order to be taken care of will charm these women, pretending that they can't live without them. Sad

Songsmirth 3 weeks ago

@Songsmirth I think policemanaaron has point when he said that New Zealand's violent crime rate is high. I mean if you think back in history, who settled Australia and New Zealand? It was a penal colony after all, ie. "Mary Bryant". It is in the genes, maybe. ( only kidding, but then again it could be a viable reason.)

mikeleesarajean 3 weeks ago

@mikeleesarajean

Actually, the penal colonies were in Australia. New Zealand had free settlers. New Zealand's appallingly high rate of violent crime is down to one group: Maori. New Zealand has the 3rd highest rate of violent crime in the OECD. If we exclude the Maori population, (about 15% of the population), we have the 3rd LOWEST rate of violent crime in the OECD. Maori culture is seriously broken.

policemanaaron 3 weeks ago

2:15

kiandarien 1 year ago

It is 2:30 in the morning and I have to go to bed now, but I am so hooked and so tired, just one more episode and then I will pack it in. ;)

bellanton12 1 year ago 2

@bellanton12 lol. Did you get to bed then? I've got hooked on some of these and realized it was 4 am.

Songsmirth 1 year ago

@Songsmirth Yes I did, I had to sleep so that I could watch more later. My eyes would not stay open and I kept nodding off and had to replay the scenes. lol.

bellanton12 1 year ago

Sir Timothy is such a gentleman but I still can't understand why he didn't choose Dorcas. I am really enjoying this series...

penguinluther 2 years ago 10

It was the difference in their classes. Dorcas said it herself a few eps back, "When I was young, I fell in love with someone I had no right to love." Marrying outside your social class was, and still is, frowned upon.

rossewidge 2 years ago 2

@penguinluther It hurts to watch these men, at that time, who don't want to deal with an abuse like this. She was so brave to go to the law. Men at this time could have beat them to death and little would be done about it. The veternarian who wrote the books spoke about a Bobby who would take young men behind a barn for the boys wrong doings and it never happened again whatever the kid had done. A wife beater rarely stops even in this day and age. I've seen it. We women have to stand up.

Songsmirth 1 year ago