batman

'Exit. pursued by a ....'

Bats.

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Aaryk Noctivagus

I resemble that remark!!!

clitheroekid

If the cap fits....and all that

batman

There's another joke in there but I am keeping my big gob shut this time !!!!!

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clitheroekid

Carmel

I do forgive you, but you as much as called me a slapper, well that's how seen it any way, but yes i forgive but i think its time i changed my aviator

batman

I can see how you might interpret my post that way, but 'twas not my intention I assure you.

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batman

Could've been worse ....

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Moor Larkin

I recall my mother used to remark, only in jest, to my father about this sort of thing, that he'd only ever hit her once and then she'd wait until he was asleep and then she'd stab him with a big knife.......

They were both very much products of the war and the Forties and Fifties. I never knew of anyone in our working class social circle who was known to beat their wife, except one family. She had divorced him and although everyone frowned upon divorce in those days, I think she was sympathised with by most.

I have wondered if all this talk of beating was the people in the Fifties finding a way to come to terms with womens' changing family function etc. and women, like Sylvia, trying to square the peculiar human behaviour circle where many women want 'dominant' male partners (whatever that means). It was a common motif in old films for hysterical women to be slapped by the hero..... and then fall sobbing gratefully, into his arms.

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orpheum

remember in Ice Cold In Alex it was Sylvia who did the slapping albeit of the other nurse in the ambulance.

clitheroekid

Yes she did - well remembered

Joenoir

I know it was once acceptable to beat children, but was there really ever a time when it was considered all right for a man to hit a woman?

Steve Crook

There's a difference between giving a child a restraining slap and beating them

I don't think it was every considered acceptable for a man to hit a woman. Certainly not in the circles I grew up in

Steve

Joenoir

Not even a restraining slap, Steve?

Aaryk Noctivagus

Yes. There was a rule that a man could beat his wife with a stick so long as it was no thicker than his thumb. This is where the phrase 'Rule of Thumb' comes from.