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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Here we go. Accusations of insanity to women who won't stay quiet/answer back/conform to the norm Victorian Women and Insanity - Jstor https://www.jstor.org/stable/3827084 by E Showalter - ‎1980 - ‎ Cited by 132 - ‎ Related articles VICTORIAN WOMEN AND INSANITY *. ON BOXING DAY 1851, CHARLES ...

burneside
burneside
19 Aug 2018

I suggest you seek psychiatric help, Mrs C, I'm sure you will benefit from it.

Lynne
Lynne
19 Aug 2018

For some reason (ahem!) a memory came to my mind of an incident way back in the late 1960s/early 1970s when an aunt of mine told me that her husband had to give his permission for her to have a hysterectomy. So whose womb was it?!!!!! Anyway,  having checked to see if my memory was fabricating things or indeed that all this did indeed take place, I checked. And yep! It sure did more than ...

19 Aug 2018

Let's look at this controlling of women, by men, in this country. At present day Christian marriage ceremonies do women still promise to 'obey' their husbands? Surely if you promise to obey someone then that means the other person has control over you. And as I'm on the subject of marriage. Why is the bride 'given away'? "Who giveth this woman to this man?" And then the bride ...

Diana Mond
Diana Mond
19 Aug 2018

And here they come. The freedom of speech brigade wanting to censor others.

BOO HOO
BOO HOO
19 Aug 2018

The blight that keeps on giving, although not wanted.

elvis presley
elvis presley
19 Aug 2018

This is already going down hill, before it starts. What a hoot!

Diana Mond
Diana Mond
18 Aug 2018

The attempted control of women also happens on this website. Particularly by a certain white, middle-aged, red-faced man who whines to this sites webmaster when they don’t like what he subjectively reads. He’s an utterly hypocritical racist/misogynistic prick. I don’t need to name names...

Vaping on the NHS
Paul
Paul
18 Aug 2018

Saw a news article saying the NHS should provide e-cigarettes. 1. I thought the NHS was struggling. 2. Will they provide free beer on the NHS?

Okay - I'll start the ball rolling again. Read this and discuss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing