Note: Most people believe
the hoax history of domestic promoted by feminists in the 1980s as exemplified
in the influential 1986 Newsweek
article:
“The policy of benign
neglect toward domestic violence was tolerated until feminists began focusing
attention on the issue of spouse abuse a decade ago and insisted that wife
beaters be treated like other violent criminals. The nation's police have
finally begun to take domestic violence seriously.” (“Attitudes change
toward domestic violence,” Newsweek, March 3, 1986; Vol. 107 Issue 9, p. 58)
The following article is
an example of real history:
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FULL
TEXT: She came to the pier at the foot of East Twenty-sixth-st. an hour before
the ferryboat for Blackwell’s Island was due to depart. In one hand she
clutched the permit which she had secured the day before from the office of the
Commissioner of Correction. The other hand was dragging a dirty faced, red
headed youngster of six or seven years.
The
was a trail little woman, with a face seamed with sorrow furrows and bearing
scars here and there. She was dressed as neatly as a torn skirt and well worn
waist would permit. She had no hat, a black shawl taking its place, and that of
a jacket as well.
It
was St, Patrick’s Day, and the boy had a band of green ribbon tied around his
neck. It was particularly glaring where it ran up against his red hair, which
was long at the neck.
The
boat to the Island ain’t gone yet, is it?” the woman asked timidly of the
ancient relic who guards the entrance to the wharf.
“Ta’n’t
if you’ve pot a permit.” he growled She hold it up. “Get along:” said the old
man.
The
trip to Blackwell’s Island does not take long after the big red ferryboat
starts, but one gets down an hour early it is rather tedious. She made her way
to the upper deck past the rooms for “Female Sick.” “Prisoners,” “Almshouse
Cases.” for it is not “over the hills to the poorhouse” in New-York.
The
woman and boy were first to come, but one by one the crowd of passengers
gathered. There was a Bowery “tough” going over to console or consult with his
“pal,” who had been “nabbed.” A flashily dressed woman from the Tenderloin was
taking flowers and a basket of fruit to some of her kind who had been taken in
a recent raid and sent to the Island for rest and meditation by a dignified,
whiskered justice of the Jefferson Market court. Several mothers, their heads
bowed in sorrow and shame, were going to visit sons who were “doing time” for
“trouble” of various sorts. There were in the ranks of the visitors all sorts
and conditions of men, for the mill of metropolitan justice is no respecter of
persons and draws no lines of caste or race.
The
boy of the red hair was restless, and was no sooner out of one kind of mischief
than he invents another. The climax stuck his chubby fist into a juicy
blackberry pie which a fleshy matron had placed on the seat beside her.
“You
little scamp!” she howled when she caught him in this act of vandalism. “Now I won’t
have no pie for my Jakey,” an’ he likes pie better ‘an nothing, an,’ he’s been
‘limboed’ now goin’ on three months.”
The
tired mother apologized aid offered spank the redhead. He set up such a howl
that the fat woman begged her to let him go.
“If
you don’t sit still I’ll not take you off the boat when we get to tie Island,”
she threatened. “Then you won’t get to see your father.”
”Will
dad beat us this time?” Said the boy loudly.
Hush.
Willie, hush!” exclaimed the mother, looking up to see if any one heard, and
then down again on finding that several had. “You know your father never beats
us.”
“Don’t
he, though?” continued the youngster.
“That’s
what the ‘cop’ arrested him for – knocking you down an’ blacking your eye an’
kicking you.”
She
took him to another part of the boat, where she stayed until the boat landed.
She went to the Workhouse office and asked for her husband.
“What’s
he in for?” asked the clerk, in a more matter of fact way.
“Well,
you see, he – we, she stammered and was confused. “We had a little disagreement
and he struck me.”
“Wife
beater, eh?” observed the clerk. “Well, I’m sorry, but you can’t see him. We
make men who beat their wives and mothers do a hard work turn when they get
over here. It does them good and they don’t come back. He’ll treat you right
when his time is up.”
“But
I’m sorry for him,” she said. “and perhaps it is not all his fault. Can’t I see
him just a little while?”
“He
leaves here every morning at 7:30 o’clock, ma’am,” explained the clerk. “Goes
op to Riker’s Island and hammers rock for ten hours There is nothing wrong at
home, is there?” he asked.
“No.
We’re managing all right on the $5 week the society gives us, but I did want t»
see him. You’ll tell him I came, won’t you?”
“I’ll
tell him.” the clerk promised, making a note of the name.
“And
that I’m sorry for him,” she added.
“You
ought to be glad he’s suffering,” declared the clerk.
The
woman with the child gave to a brawny Irishwoman of the Cherry Hill type.
“Faith,
an I want to ask ye about me man,” she said, in a voice like a man’s.
“What’s
he in for?” was the stereotype reply.
“Wife
beatin’, It was,” she said. Rolling a
glorious brogue.
“Are
you his wife?” The clerk looked incredulous.
“Don’t
yez be castin’ any aspersions on me character> she cried, flaring up. “Don’t
yez dare to say that I ain’t his wife! An’ didn’t Father Dolan, God rest his
soul to peace, marry us himself?”
‘That’s
all right, my good woman. What can we tell you about your husband?”‘
“I
want to know is he workin’ hard as he says he is.”
“Well,
he’s breaking rocks for the breakwater on Riker’s Island, up the river a bit.”
said the official. “It’s the hardest work we have and wife beaters always get
it.”
“And
what is he doing with the money he earns? You don’t let him be sendin’ it to
other woman, is it?”
Her
joy was great when she learned that he got nothing for his toil, and that it
was all part of his punishment for beating her.
“Just
you wait.” she said, with smiles: “wait till yees get through with him. I’ll
beat him into a pulp the first time he comes home. Do yees suppose he could
have beaten me if I hadn’t taken a drop too much myself – jus by accident?”
“There
are wife beaters and wife beaters.” the clerk muttered as she strode away.
Within
the last few months New-York has made great strides in the punishment of wife-
beaters. It is no longer a safe form of amusement for a drink crazed or devil
moved husband to come home and hammer the helpless woman who bears his name and
children.
For
years justices have complained that they could not punish properly the average
wife-beater. because of the suffering entailed on his family while he was
undergoing imprisonment. A short time ago some philanthropic citizen intrusted
to Commissioner Thomas W. Hynes a fund sufficiently large to provide living
expenses for many families whose breadwinners were being punished. As much as
$7 a week can be given in cases of large families. The City Magistrates no
longer found it necessary to let the brutal husband off with a promise of good
behavior, which he promptly broke the text time he went on a drunk.
“I’ve
had the pleasure of sending several old offenders to the Island for six
months.” said one magistrate the other day. “My, but they were surprised when
pronounced sentence!
“One
fellow had the nerve to say, ‘But, judge, my family will starve to death if you
lock me up tor three months.” I gave him six just to show that there was no
great danger under the new order of things.”
“We
see to it that wife-beaters have no easy time of it on the Island.” said Warden
Frank W. Fox the other day to a Tribune reporter.
‘Every
one of them who is able to work— I’ve noticed that wife-beaters and men who
abuse their mothers are generally the most able-bodied prisoners we have—is
shipped off to Riker’s Island, where are making extensive improvements. They
unload gravel scows, empty heavy ash barrels, break rocks and do casual labor
of the hardest sort. They don’t want to come back, and I don’t believe we will
have many repeaters.
Judge
Joseph Morschauser, of Poughkeepsie, has no fund for the support of unfortunate
wives, but he has found a way around the difficulty. He imposed this sentence a
few days ago on one “Gus” Merkle:
“Six
months in the penitentiary on probation,” he said to the man, and then, turning
to the wife can keep out of the penitentiary by giving you his wages every
Saturday night, and you give him 25 cents week for tobacco. If he fails he will
go to jail in short order.”
[“An
Almost Sure Cure For Wife Beaters Can Be Seen Daily Doing Its Good Work On
Rikers Island – Learning to Be Gentle. - Men Who Abuse Their Wives Now Punished
as They Deserve.” New York Tribune Illustrated Supplement (N.Y.), Apr. 12, 1903,
p. 4]
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►• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.
►19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence
► Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960 – this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).
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►• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.
You have been lied to. The people who told you these
lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes
and tuition fees) to be lied to.
Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate
the truth.
►•►• To see more eloquent, vivid
evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:
►19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence
► Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960 – this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).
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“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system
begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family
matter.”
From the entry: “Domestic Violence” on encyclopedia.com
This claim has been proven to be false.
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