'So what - I should he locked away somewhere? That was the view up until the 60s of mental health where people were locked in asylums lest others were disturbed.'
I find this comment utterly and totally crass.
Women and girls were put in asylums for years by their families. Because they had no say. Because their behaviour did not fit. Because they were pregnant.
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2141741/Sent-asylum-The-Victorian-women-locked-suffering-stress-post-natal-depression-anxiety.html
Look at the pictures of those women.
The Magdalen laundries.
'The last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed for good on Oct 25, 1996.
Also known as Magdalene asylums, Magdalene Laundries were cruel and medieval institutions in which women were imprisoned, stripped of their human rights and abused sexually and otherwise.
Women sent to the Laundries were deemed “mischievous” or “scandalous” at an incredibly young age and spent years and years of their lives doing penance for their sins, guarded by ruthless nuns.'
Nineteen ninety six.
All over the world NOW women and girls have their behaviour, their clothes, even their bodies controlled and if they transgress then assault or death are socially accepted consequences.
One that upset me. America. I think because of the visceral description. (Don't read if squeamish).
'We went through the top of the head, I think Rosemary was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary some questions. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backward. "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." When Rosemary began to become incoherent, they stopped.[25]'
Rosemary Kennedy. Her mother wasn't told what they were going to do. She spent the rest of her life needing care. If you Google her, look at the pictures.
So. You know. Try a different argument. Because that comment.
You don't think seriously that anyone on this thread wants you locked up in an asylum? They don't even exist any more. Bedlam is gone.
We got locked up in large numbers. Young girls. Who didn't behave properly. Women were in there for their whole lives. Because their families had them put away.
So. You have zero risk of going to an asylum in England. There aren't any.
And do you think it's really ok to raise that Spectre? Yes Ireland is a different country. But look at the year FFS look at it.
You have NO chance of being committed. Because some women on the internet disagree with you.
So why say it? Are you being deliberately that provocative? Or do you just write. Whatever.
Women spent their whole lives in those places. Put in as teens. Lived and died there.
Trust me. No women on this thread want that for you.
You know that I'm sure. So why raise the asylum topic? You must know how we were treated.