The things people say....

[OneAccord]

I was just posting on another thread, and CNN Headline News was on (yes, I have a TV). They were showing a clip on Drew Petersen being interviewed by Larry King. (Drew Petersen is the policeman who is a suspect in his wifes disappearnce). Larry asked Petersen if he ever abused his wife. Petersen, who comes across as cocky and arrogant - not saying he is, thats just the way he comes across- answered, "No, I would lose my job if I ever abused my wife".

Of all the reasons NOT to abuse your wife, he would refrain from hitting her solely because he would lose his job. Reminds me of the man, whose sister had been beaten, who, while being arrested for hitting the man who had beat her, said "Ain't no man gonna hit my sister unless he's married to her!"

Theres never, NEVER an excuse for a man to be abusive to his wife. No justification for it at all. But, to refrain from beating his wife because it would jeopardize his job reveals alot of what is in the heart and character of men like Petersen.

[jaxfam6]

I would have to agree with you.

[Barb]

I was out and about today, and heard an interview on XM radio with Bill & Gloria Gaither.

He told about the time he was alone at the office, and someone called asking, "Is it true that Vestal Goodman passed away?"

Bill said, "Yes, I'm afraid it is true."

The woman said, "So I guess she won't be at the concert this weekend?!"

[Sherri]

This is something we've had to face several times in Kenya. It's very common over there for the men to "discipline" their wives (beat them). We teach that it's wrong and ungodly, but it's so ingrained in their culture, it's hard for them to see.

Now in the United States.........everyone should know better!!!

[OneAccord]

Originally Posted by Sherri

This is something we've had to face several times in Kenya. It's very common over there for the men to "discipline" their wives (beat them). We teach that it's wrong and ungodly, but it's so ingrained in their culture, it's hard for them to see.

Now in the United States.........everyone should know better!!!

Should... but, sadly, don't. No, I stand corrected. They know better. They just don't do better.

[Kae]

Originally Posted by Sherri

This is something we've had to face several times in Kenya. It's very common over there for the men to "discipline" their wives (beat them). We teach that it's wrong and ungodly, but it's so ingrained in their culture, it's hard for them to see.

Now in the United States.........everyone should know better!!!

We attended a cult for about a year that felt it was alright to spank their wives if they needed it.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Kae

We attended a cult for about a year that felt it was alright to spank their wives if they needed it.

No offense, but as a woman, if I went to any kind of "church" that taught something like that, I would be out the door VERY quickly. What made you stay for a year????

[ChristopherHall]

Originally Posted by Sherri

This is something we've had to face several times in Kenya. It's very common over there for the men to "discipline" their wives (beat them). We teach that it's wrong and ungodly, but it's so ingrained in their culture, it's hard for them to see.

Now in the United States.........everyone should know better!!!

I was shocked to hear that in America it used to be legal for a man to beat his wife. The term "Rule of thumb" comes from the idea that a wife can be beaten by her husband with a stick as long as the stick wasn't thicker than her husband's thumb.

We've made a lot of progress...we've got a little ways to go yet though.

[Balanced]

Originally Posted by ChristopherHall

I was shocked to hear that in America it used to be legal for a man to beat his wife. The term "Rule of thumb" comes from the idea that a wife can be beaten by her husband with a stick as long as the stick wasn't thicker than her husband's thumb.

We've made a lot of progress...we've got a little ways to go yet though.

Actually that is a myth. Check your "facts".

http://www.debunker.com/texts/ruleofthumb.html

However, Christina Hoff Sommers documents how the link between the phrase
"rule of thumb" and wifebeating is a feminist-inspired myth of recent vintage.
In her book "Who Stole Feminism" (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994, p. 203) Sommers writes:

...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed...

The 'rule of thumb', however, turns out to be an excellent example of what may be called a feminist fiction. Is is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced.

That the phrase did not even originate in legal practice could have been ascertained by any fact-checker who took the trouble to look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes that the term has been used metaphorically for at least three hundred years to refer to any method of measurement or technique of estimation derived from experience rather than science.

[OneAccord]

Originally Posted by Barb

I was out and about today, and heard an interview on XM radio with Bill & Gloria Gaither.

He told about the time he was alone at the office, and someone called asking, "Is it true that Vestal Goodman passed away?"

Bill said, "Yes, I'm afraid it is true."

The woman said, "So I guess she won't be at the concert this weekend?!"

"Here's yo sign...."