The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52022   Message #794848
Posted By: wysiwyg
01-Oct-02 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: God made her beat the children
Subject: RE: BS: God made her beat the children
"They" do, but in cults, of all stripes.

Any then you can, if you wish to stretch the point just a tad, count the "therapeutic hold" used in mental health facilities.

Or you can count men correcting women this way. ANd vice versa, in smaller numbers.

All these are divisive ways of trying to talk sensibly about awful things-- sometimes, the best we can come up with in an effort to get some sense out of them. All these tings do happen, and we need ways to talk about them, but simplistic labels we turn to, in a moment of uspet, don't do much to change things.

~S~