Sean Connery is not a legend

[KissWithAFist]

Some will consider this bad taste - it’s the day he died I know. But this is a man who condoned hitting women. And though he qualified his endorsement by saying you shouldn’t hit a woman like you would a man, I think it’s enormously damaging that someone in his position - who so many people look up to - can make comments like this.

I’m sad for his family as I would be sad for any family who have lost a loved one. But I don’t think he should be remembered as a “legend”.

Anyway, here is a link to Sean Connery in his own words.....

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Actually @PlanDeRaccordement looking at your post I think we are speaking at cross purposes - what I was saying is, just because it wasn't illegal for a man to hit his wife in 1965, it doesn't mean it was wrong. Laws "at the time" are NOT a measure of what is right or wrong. Just what has been fought for by certain people

I think you've misunderstood my post (and I misread yours so apologies for the blow response!)

[user1274157963247]

If it’s legal, the majority of society think it’s not wrong.

Come off it, that's not how our legal system works.

[PlanDeRaccordement]

@GlummyMcGlummerson
Thank you for that. Obviously wife beating is absolutely wrong. But it was not viewed as wrong enough for there to be any laws against it. In 1822 cruelty to cattle was outlawed, but it took until 1976 for a similar law to be passed protecting married women.

I’m not defending the man Sean Connery was. But his 1965 comments were not highly unusual or shocking at the time he said them. To say that is to deny the reality of history of women’s oppression. That’s also why it took until over 25yrs later for anyone to question them as seen in the OPs video clip from 1997.

There is a Aug 1st 1964 scientific study “the wife beaters wife” done by at the time well esteemed psychiatrists and published that literally said that a man beating his wife was actually a good thing. They called it “violent, temporary therapy”: (quote from study)

‘The periods of violent behavior by the husband,’ the doctors observed, ‘served to release him momentarily from his anxiety about his ineffectiveness as a man, while giving his wife apparent masochistic gratification and helping probably to deal with the guilt arising from the intense hostility expressed in her controlling, castrating


I do however think that by 2006 Sean Connery had albeit very late in life realised he was wrong in what he thought in 1965.

[KissWithAFist]

I stand corrected, there was more to Sean than met the eye - he helps struggling business owners too. He keeps good company.

[KissWithAFist]

Wrong tweet.

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Oh wow, so he can add "environmental fraud" to his list of qualities.

Though I strongly suspect the Orange One is telling tall tales there

[Radiatornoise]

Note “past” and not “passed”. You’d think a POTUS would be more informed.

[CherryPieface]

He beat his first wife until she was unconscious.

My dad was born in 1928. He does not hit women. Sean Connery was not a product of his time.

[RuffleCrow]

That's horrific @CherryPieface

[GabsAlot]

yes isnt it lovely that he stopped apparently beating his wives to unconsciousness

what a man

[knittingaddict]

@Radiatornoise

Note “past” and not “passed”. You’d think a POTUS would be more informed.

He can't spell. It's well known from his illiterate twitter posts. One of Trump's teachers called him the dumbest student he had ever had or words to the effect.