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Women tortured and raped during civil rights era?
I heard that around civil rights era
some women who demanded liberty and rights to vote
were abducted by some kind of men who opposed women rights
and often were tortured and even were raped.
(They were placed in some bunk or underground basement or cellar..
almost no one knew where the women were and
they were chained and were in harsh condition,
with scarce food and water.)
Is it really true? if it is, can you explain it further and in detail?
I really want to know about it..
thanks.
| It's true.
Women who wished for the right to vote were treated very badly by those who wanted to oppress them.
One of the most awful events was "The Night of Terror" that occured on Novemver 15, 1917.
"The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of “obstructing sidewalk traffic.”
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women."
HBO made a movie about this terrible event called "Iron Jawed Angels" that's available on DVD.
I've never seen it, but HBO usually does wonderful films.
| Why would someone make doodles of women being stabbed and tortured? I was at my friends apartment the other day and near his desk and books I saw a lot of doodles and drawings that he made of naked or near-naked women in chains with stab wounds and other torture. Why would someone who's such a seemingly nice guy have so many doodles of women being mistreated and tortured? Strangely enough, he's actually the nicest guy ever and if anything treats women too nice.
Do you think his drawings are meaningless? I was going to ask him about them but then I didn't want him to know I was snooping through his stuff. | | It's hard to tell. It could be a positive thing, an Edgar Allan Poe-ish kind of macabre artistic talent, although my question then would be why the exclusive focus on women? Then again, it could mean something pretty disturbing. Take, for example, psychopathic serial killers. They often start out in guyhood being drawn to the torture of animals, yet as adults can be exceedingly charming. However, their charm is not authentic; it's a pure act (but a very good and convincing one) engaged in for the purpose of manipulating others for their own ends. Yet again, it could be a mere way of exorcising his demons, and we all have demons, and that doesn't mean we're psychopaths or dangerous. That's kind of back to the Edgar Allan Poe argument. Look at some Alfred Hitchcock's movies, like Frenzy, for example. One could say that's a pretty disturbing creation, particularly toward women, to come out of a man's mind, and some think it hints at Hitchcock's demons, yet he was not a dangerous or psychopathic individual; he was a great film director. Finally, there is another possibility. There's a theory of the psychologist Carl Jung known as unconscious compensation. The idea is that the unconscious is essentially a mirror image in reverse of the conscious mind. And contents of the unconscious do find expression in consciousness, even though the conscious mind remains unaware of their origins. So, for example, by this theory, a person whose conscious personality is very gentle, particularly, say, to women, might harbor in their unconscious mind a hidden hostility toward them, which may find expression artistically, or, on other hand, in a destructive rather than constructive way, for example, possibly during moments of extreme emotion, such as anger, where the normal controls of thought and behavior are temporarily lost to consciousness and come under the sway of the unconscious mind. | In the middle age, how many innocent women were killed, tortured?And,How many men were killed, tortured? Same as title:In the middle age,In the middle age, how many innocent women were killed, tortured?And,How many innocent men were killed, tortured?
And, were they accused by priests?or, by other swindlers? | First of all you have to tell what the ones you speak of was accused of. During the middle ages there were many crimes that would cause you to be tortured and killed. Then you have to define "innocent" since many were found guilty according to the laws they had at that time and since they were guilty they were not innocent. See the catch there? (As an example, homosexuality was illegal and if you were caught in a homosexual act, you were guilty, even though homosexuality is legal in many parts of the world today.) You also need to tell what area of the world that you are talking about since there were many civilizations flourishing during the era that we call the middle ages. Once you have done that you can start to expect to get answers that's correct to what you expect from them.
It was more common for men than women to be tortured and killed for different crimes than it was for women. The ones accusing them would most likely have been those that felt that the men and women had committed a crime. Hence, the accuser could be the man who had his cow stolen as well as the priest that thought that the person had committed a sin.
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If I assume that you are referring to the witch trials in Europe (if not ignore this) I have to start by telling you that during the middle ages there were few witch trials as we know them. The church had decided that anyone believing in witchcraft was a heretic and most of those that were put to trial was tried as heretics not witches. There were also many other things that could cause you to be put to trial for heresy, so not all heretics were witches. It wasn't until the late middle ages that witch trials started to appear in the fashion we think of them today and the trials boomed during the early modern European era. Still, execution by being burned at the stake was not as common as we might think today.
In the beginning the church, the priests and most of the so called "noble" people thought of the witch hunt as some sort of nonsense that the uneducated peasants were in to. In the beginning they pretty much ignored what the peasants were doing and kept on with business as usual, but, as the witch hunt spread the peasants started to demand that the church and the "noble" folks should act and help out. The "noble" ones also realized that they had to do something since they needed the peasants to focus on more important things such as paying their taxes and providing means for wars and so on. So, the accusers where most often ordinary people that had something against a person or two in the community. Once the accusations started people would often accuse each other so that they wouldn't be accused themselves and they'd often accuse people that they didn't like. A natural choice.
When someone was accused the priest was most often the first authority to hear about it and some priests took things into their hands, and by that they caused more and more victims through their ignorance. There is also a difference between the Catholic and the Protestant church. The Spanish Inquisition that's often accused of mass killings and cruelty was much kinder than many protestant areas and they often let people confess and regret what they had done instead of killing them.
The numbers of people that were actually killed during the witch hunt varies depending on what source you look at and it also varies depending on what area you look at and what part of Christianity. A common, but not likely, number that's floating around about the Spanish Inquisition is up at the hundreds of thousands. A more realistic and likely number is about 2000 persons, that's less than 2% of all the ones that were accused. The Spanish Inquisition preferred living subjects that payed taxes.
I've seen numbers that about 25% of those who were killed in the witch hunt were men, but it didn't specify what area and what time it was referring to. In some areas the numbers were 5% - 15%, still no specification about when or where. That women were more targeted in some areas can often be connected to the "Malleus Maleficarum" (The Hammer of Witches) a book that was banned by the church but still managed to survive and cause much grief. They authors of the book argues that women were weak and more susceptible to the devil and the dark forces in the world. The book spread through Europe in the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century and that's also about the time where the statistics often turn against the women.
The millions of executions sometimes claimed is not supported by historians today. Even a number such as 50,000 executions during all witch trials (not just the ones in the middle ages) seems a bit high considering the population in Europe during that time period and the spread of the witch trials.
The countries where there were most witch trials were Germany, France, Switzerland and Croatia. But, most trials happened during the early modern era and not during the middle ages.
Since I know that I'm rambling on I'll sum it up.
If you are asking about witch trials during the middle ages, there were not as many as there was later on in history.
It's likely that about 25% of the convicted and executed witches were men back then, but the numbers can vary depending on time and place. The exact number of men and women executed as witches during the middle ages or any time is disputed.
Most of the accusers were uneducated people that accused people that they didn't like. It was often the role of the priest to settle it all and that's where many priests failed and made matters worse instead.
Things were different in some ways during the early modern European era, but you still have the same basic pattern. | Why were there no pictures of the tortured and murdered women and guyren in Bombay, India? The media bombards the news with pictures of dead and injured Palestinians where were the pictures of the tortured and murdered Jews in Bombay? | Why just Bombay? Why not the sight of burning cars in France (caused by young Muslims), people being attacked by terrorists in Iraq, or people being blown up in nightclubs in Bali?
The newspapers are on the side of radical, violent Islam. I can't understand why, but that's the only explanation. | Do muslim women tortured under Sharia law think islam is a "religion of peace"? I wonder if any of them have been asked, to see if they have a different opinion from the politicians who lecture us. | | they can not speak out, they will be beaten or tortured if they do. Where are lib and feminists on this issue? Someone must stand up for these women as they can not stand up for themselves. | Sadism, is it normal to get off on cartoons of women being tortured? or is it just the result of pent up sexual frustration? | it can be pent up sexual frustration. however, if you derive pleasure from such, the question of sexual frustration is unnecessary.
definitely not a symptom of any serious paraphilia.
have a nice day! ^_^ | When God said"suffer not a witch to live"He must have known that women would be tortured and killed? So He must have wanted it to happen,if so why are you not torturing and burning witches now?Surely God's will is more important than the law?or is this just another example of how you pick and choose which bits of the bible to follow? | Andy, God never said this.
Those words were changed from "thief" to "witch" by King James because it fit his belief system. Which makes me wonder how many other words were changed.
**Christian | Women tortured during civil rights era? ?
I heard that around civil rights era
some women who demanded liberty and rights to vote
were abducted by some kind of men who opposed women rights
and often were tortured and even were raped.
(They were placed in some bunk or underground basement or cellar..
almost no one knew where the women were and
they were chained and were in harsh condition,
with scarce food and water.)
Is it true? if it is, can you explain it further and in detail?
thanks.
I really want to know about it.. | yeah, I have heard and I would like to know about that please
thank you | Was it mostly only women who were burnt and tortured for being witches? And could these people in olden times be compared to modern day feminist in as much as nobody liked them back then one little bit. | overall. women made up about 75% of those executed for witchcraft. But in some areas, the numbers of men executed could be higher, for instance in the Lorraine region of France, for which extensive records remain, there were more men than women executed, and in Iceland 90% of those executed for witchcraft were men.
Women were thought to be weaker spiritually than men, and more prone to demonic possession, which was why women tended to be accused more often than men. It is worth noting also that while the majority of suspects were witches, so were the majority of their accusers. women tended to be accused by other women, mostly close neighbours.
Courts were generally reluctant to try witches, because witchcraft was a difficult charge to prove. Overall, about 50% of those accused of witchcraft were acquitted. In New England, there were a total of 86 defendants in witchcraft trials prior to the Salem witch hunts, and out of those only 16 were hanged.
People accused of witchcraft could be from different social backgrounds, although the stereotype of the accused witch is of a poor elderly lady, in fact witches could be from wealthy backgrounds, and they could be respectable members of society. For instance, in the Salem witch trials one of those accused and convicted was George Burroughs, who had been a minister of Salem, and you couldn't get much more respectable than that in New England colonial society.
Also, witches in England and in the American colonies were not burnt, they were hanged. |
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