• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    From the little bit of older literature I’ve read, violence is normal. Hitting the wife if she speaks up is just everyday occurrence. Don Quixote hits Sancha a few times. Even the stories of my grandparents were full of getting slapped or hit with a ruler by nuns and pastors in Catholic school.

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      In my school too. Kids would get the strap for speaking in a language other than English. This was public school in the 1970s.