Happy new year
pic of the newly married couple
this was pretty bad. it was bad enough that even back then you had people pointing out how bad it was. it was so bad that various states passed laws so that it would be against the law, going forward.
the textbook’s point is that even though this wasn’t common place, it was somewhat taken for granted.
i can kind of understand somethings. like how it was probably far more common back then for people to be married by the ages of 15-18. i can get that. but the case of Johns and Eunice, it was shocking even then. that should tell you something.
that thing being that Johns was a pedophile.
I agree. It was certainly more common for child marriages but not that extreme. That guy was definitely a pedo. If you are buying your wife a doll for her wedding present you need to rethink your life choices.
Ok, this may be wrong history but I could have sworn I saw some article a few years ago explaining that this marriage happened because it was the middle of the great depression and her parents couldn’t afford to feed her or something like that.
Makes it worse, imo.
That said, was he a pedo? If sex happened then obviously yes, but I thought this marriage was a charity case more so than a “indulge a pedo who’s interested in our daughter during the depression” situation…
I’m gonna have to go find that article at some point…
Even if it was a charity case and he waited to fuck her until she was of age it’s still grooming. They should have lynched this motherfucker as soon as he expressed interest in marrying a 9 year old.
Yes yes death is the only solution to anything bad
It’s the only solution to child molesters.
I’ve tried to get a pedophile to see a therapist. I can tell you from a pure harm reduction perspective a bullet is much more likely to be the solution.
Is anecdotal evidence accurate? This guy says yes.
Don’t call me a guy. And if you don’t cite a study, anecdotes are still legitimately a better bet than pulling shit out of your arse
Go on, genuinely willing to have my mind changed. Something tells me you haven’t googled any literature on the topic until now tho.
First things first: the only thing I did was disqualifying what you said, and since you used anecdotal evidence, I think it is more than fair that I did just that. How can I have pulled anything out of my arse if that is the only thing I did?
Anecdotal evidence being better than the supposed shit I said (I didn’t find any, maybe you can point it out?) doesn’t mean that your argument is any good, and wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect good arguments if you are arguing for the bullet?
And I didn’t need to do any research so far because just thinking for myself is sufficient at the moment, and before you ask me to do research, I’ll recommend doing some yourself.
Interesting. That would certainly change the situation. Please post it if you do find it or DM me. I would be curious if that was the case!
It would not change how bad that guy’s actions are. If anything it would make it worse.
My dad was born in Eastern Kentucky in 1916 so grew up in the same era and region. He knew a guy that married a 12 year old and the guy confided in him that the first day he came home from work after getting married he found his wife playing with a doll. He felt bad, and of course he should have.
Even that marriage was considered bad back then, and this 9 year old of course is about as horrible as can be imagined.
Maybe it’s just unfortunate connotation with the phrasing but “these marriages were taken for granted” sounds like the author is saying that people didn’t appreciate that they could do that back then.
That really isn’t what that phrase means, taken for granted just means people thought it was a normal part of life. It’s taken for granted now that we don’t have metallic skin and electric eyes, but if we are lucky that won’t always be the case.
I beg to differ. This is straight up the second definition on Merriam Webster. It’s a poor choice of words if the author didn’t want readers to interpret it this way.
to value (something or someone) too lightly
“…in 2017, Human Rights Watch pointed out that Afghanistan has a tougher law on child marriage than parts of the United States…” 😨
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
Make sure to insist on a honeymoon in Germany as over here marriages under 16 get auto-divorced (16-18 a judge will decide) and you have a solid reason for asylum.
That’s cute & all, but even if certain things happen to be correct, I don’t give a flying fuck what the people running Afghanistan have as laws of the land. They’re so fucked up. Just had a discussion on here, they’ve got all these laws, kill the homosexuals, homosexuals are just an abomination. But hey…there’s this powerful warlord or prominent man engaging in bacha bazi…ehhhhh, we’ll pretend that’s not happening. Maybe even join in. Gross hypocrisy.
They’re so fucked up.
That’s the point. The fucked up place has stricter rules on this fucked up thing than places in the US.
That’s fucked up
That was post-pre-taliban though (jfc typing that feels so dumb)
I’d guess it’s worse in 2023 for Afghanistan now.
Did I read this wrong or the author is really trying to frame it as a cutesy normal thing?
I don’t see that at all, seems like they’re just pointing out how cultural norms can change over time, which is a basic
tenanttenet of sociologyNolan really outdone himself in that movie
makes sense 👍
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionism
Stay in school everybody.
Textbooks can be wild. My A&P textbook had a graphic showing the difference between Caucasian, Asian, and SSAfrican skulls. I was like: what the eugenics?
Pardon my ignorance, but aren’t the skulls often shaped a bit differently? If the textbook was just showing that and not saying something about one shape making a certain race superior, is that still a problem?
Different races will often have little differences right? My favorite example is the gene variant ABCC11 that is extremely common in South Korea. It limits the production of odorous sweat by reducing the activity of apocrine glands. I think it also affects whether ear wax is wet or dry. I’m kind of jealous of that one and am waiting for CRISPR to be available for it. Well maybe not, but I’d at least think about it.
I did not know that. I’m part Korean and my friend keeps telling me I always smell fine even when I’m camping for days. Always thought it was a myth though. Kinda cool
So lucky!
I do believe there are differences in different race of people, isn’t there a small part in Africa where the population are best suited for running? However, there shouldn’t be much difference in skulls by itself. All infants are borned with malleble skull until age of two or so.
I remember reading an article years ago about a village that put out an absurd amount of Olympic long distance runners. The article noted that the village was on a high plateau and far from other places. The extreme difference in height led to better lung capacity and the normalcy of having to travel by foot long distances just raised a bunch of people who conditioned their bodies from birth to be adept at long distance running. None of it resulted in any major changes in population physiology as it’s just training your body to deal with environmental conditions after birth and doesn’t cause the mutations in the genome that would mark evolutionary changes.
I mean, obviously there are some physical differences between races. They look different, some have more prevalence of certain diseases or conditions, but races are entirely a social construct. Scaled out, the differences in races aren’t more severe than the differences in variability in smaller groups within a race, or even a family. It’s like, yeah, uncle Steve’s side of the family all have kinda pointy ears because he passed that on to his kids but his brother didn’t pass that gene on but they’re still family. Zoom out and view all humans not as different races but one giant group and uncle Steve’s branch all just have darker skin or straighter hair, but they’re still clearly part of the human family.
We learned it in forensics and reconstructive cosmetology. The shape of the skull can often be used to determine race. I loathed having to list out the scientific names, because they’re not words you say nowadays.
In the American TV show BONES this was literally done every episode. It wasn’t a race thing really it was presented in a respectfully “scientific” manner.
Formerly Chucksville.
The problem with a pedophile marrying a child is that it’s all downhill for the next seventy or eighty years potentially.
I feel like there’s maybe a couple other issues
Sneedville
Which textbook?
“Sociology, A down to earth approach” by James Henslin, 2007.
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1937 is surprisingly recent for this to be considered acceptable.
According to some other comments, it wasn’t.
