News clipping from The NY Daily Mirror 1950

[Ronni]

Anyone who doesn’t understand the history
of feminism should read this.

 

[MarciKS]

no man better ever think he can spank me unless it's for fun. i'll smack him with a frypan.

 

[Devi]

Yes, why not beat them into submission? Jeez.

 

[Buckeye]

lol - I think I'm gonna leave this one alone

 

[Pappy]

Maybe they need a dose of Nervine:

 

[hollydolly]

no man better ever think he can spank me unless it's for fun. i'll smack him with a frypan.

...no man will ever spank me EVEN in fun...I bluddy hate that....

 

[PamfromTx]

no man better ever think he can spank me unless it's for fun. i'll smack him with a frypan.

Use one of these cast iron skillets.

 

[gamboolman]

This reminded me of Willie Nelson telling about what his wife did to him...

https://www.wideopencountry.com/willie-nelson-wife-annie-dangelo/

Excerpt from linked article:
Willie Nelson is a Texas-sized legend of country music. The country singer, known for his Outlaw Country songs, including collaborations with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard, his fight for the legalization of pot and his status as an Austin icon, has also had a Texas-sized amount of marriages.

Martha Matthews​

The songwriter's first wife was Martha Matthews. Nelson and Matthews were married from 1952 to 1962. The marriage was a contentious and violent one. In a 1980 interview with People, Nelson said Matthews once sewed him up in a bed sheet and then beat him with a broomstick. "By the time I got loose, she'd lit out in the car with the kids, her clothes and my clothes," Nelson told People. "There was no way I could follow her naked, and that was kind of the end of it."

 

[old medic]

This is proof that that things and attitudes change over time...
I mean I never cared for a spanking as a child.....

 

[Aunt Marg]

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Anyone who doesn’t understand the history
of feminism should read this.

I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life.

Guess this just goes to show that lack of shame was alive and well back in the day as well.

 

[peramangkelder]

Maybe the Brooklyn Barber should get the hairbrush somewhere the Sun don't shine

 

[Aunt Marg]

Maybe the Brooklyn Barber should get the hairbrush somewhere the Sun don't shine

Those men in the picture would have been reduced to tears had their wives quit setting-out three square meals a day on the table for them, quit doing their laundry, and made them sleep on the couch.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

If a woman needs it, she should be spanked. DAMN A Right!!!!!!!!!!
My location is withheld for obvious reasons.

 

[Devi]

If a woman needs it, she should be spanked. DAMN A Right!!!!!!!!!!
My location is withheld for obvious reasons.

So what would, in your opinion, constitute a woman "needing it"?

 

[Aunt Marg]

If a woman needs it, she should be spanked. DAMN A Right!!!!!!!!!!
My location is withheld for obvious reasons.

You "DAMN A RIGHT" your location is withheld.

 

[oldiebutgoody]

This crazy notion is a lot older than most may think. Google "a dog, a woman, and a tree ~ the more you beat them the better they be"



https://www.google.com/search?q=a+d...9i57j69i64.13974j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[jujube]

And of course up into the 1900's, any time a woman "got out of hand" (which would include things like having an opinion, wanting equal rights, wanting to control her own money, and other things that were considered 'unwomanly'), it was blamed on "hysteria". And what was the solution for hysteria, you might ask? Why, a hysterectomy, of course. Sometimes even a lobotomy. And a nice long stay in a mental sanitarium was always a good way to rid oneself of a troublesome wife.

 

[oldiebutgoody]

"got out of hand"

this was the most popular "remedy" in the past:

 

[jujube]

Yep, "Mother's Little Helper", a brand of tonic heavy on the laudanum and alcohol, was an all-round solution to household difficulties.

Kids acting up, won't take a nap? A couple spoonfuls of MLH and those little imps are off to the land of Nod. And then Mom could have a hefty slug of it herself and forget all her problems.....

 

[Sassycakes]

If my husband ever dared to spank me I hope he would enjoy it because It would be the last thing he would ever do.

 

[Murrmurr]

Up until fairly recently (like, a couple decades?) there were laws in some states that prohibited men from punishing their wives with a wooden stick/dowel/paddle that measured larger in circumference than her wrist. Anything narrower than the Missus's wrist was ok.

 

[Devi]

Up until fairly recently (like, a couple decades?) there were laws in some states that prohibited men from punishing their wives with a wooden stick/dowel/paddle that measured larger in circumference than her wrist. Anything narrower than the Missus's wrist was ok.

Which states were those, @Murrmurr?

 

[Murrmurr]

Which states were those, @Murrmurr?

If I remember right, they were mostly southern states. Texas was one, I think. I'm not sure, though, I read about it about 5 years ago, and I think the law had just been repealed or expunged or whatever...canceled.

 

[Keesha]

If I remember right, they were mostly southern states. Texas was one, I think. I'm not sure, though, I read about it about 5 years ago, and I think the law had just been repealed or expunged or whatever...canceled.

It had ‘just’ been repealed????
( shakes head )

 

[MarciKS]

I don't know how they got away with it. There's no way in hell I'd tolerate that.