Do I think women would enforce the war time or societal punishments if put to the task? ABSOLUTELY!
Sorry you feel we were harder on you than Emily... FYI women generally don't have pissing contest to see who's post will get spanked more. [beat]
Maybe I shouldn't speak for Emily; but I don't believe she is on a crusade to stand in these womens way, just expressing her views, just as you may.
Just wondering, do you honestly believe that women would, if it were up to them, enforce the ancient war-time punishments that you mentioned above? Or were you simply giving a "spanking" via inadequate argument?
I'm in no way a male-basher, just think you may tend to argue for sake of argument in a few threads.
There was this article circulated by Amnesty International about a test they conducted to see how willing people would be to torture others. They had this switchboard a subject sat at and was told it administered an electric shock to a test subject in another room whos only contact with him was through the speaker. The switches were labeled in a progressively intenser degrees and the last ones simply marked xxx.
The subject was told the examiner would ask the test subject a question and if he answered incorrectly to activate one of the progressively stronger switches. The test subject would,of course scream in anguish and also complain of a heart problem they proclaimed to possess.
Of course , unknown to the subject the test subject was not attached to an electrical device and just acted out the anguish. Of all the subjects put through the test most prevalent, the women went all the way through to the last switches even when the test subject didn't reply at all.
The point is, that people have a tendancy to obey authority unquestionably. Surprisingly enough, in Moslem countries that do subscribe harsh punishments to women as well as to men, women are the chief proponents of such a system. Their logic is that the harsher the punishment, the less chance someone will abuse the system. That's why so many young women are willing to strap an explosive satchel to themselves and set it off in a crowded Israeli shop.
I am not trying to be hard on Emily. I think the whole idea of history being a story of men vs. women is a bunch of rubbish and needs a balanced answer. History is the story of mans' struggle with himself. The whole battle of the sexes is because society decided to divide itself into two camps divided by physical as well as mental dividers. When you have two independent camps naturally each will fomulate fallacies about the other when unchecked by the accused. Each side is equally capable of inflicting cruelty if that is what they are assigned to do.
Sorry to run so long but it is one of my peeves.




But it's all about shock these days.I saw part of the tape on T.V. and thought to myself a womens group is going to find the producer and cast of this tape and make a tape of their own.
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