(May 7, 2021 at 11:56 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I strongly suspect that even if she left the second she figured out what the fuck was happening with Josh, the only thing that would have changed from that tight spot I described earlier is the number of mouths she’d have to feed. Maybe if she left him at the beginning of the courtship, after he explained what he did (and I’m not convinced he told her “I fingered four of my kid sisters’ pussies plus that of some other girl” at the time), best case scenario is her family never lets her hear the end of it. Once they tied the knot, if she wasn’t willing to leave everything she knew behind, up to and including her presumptive eternal salvation, I suspect that she thought her fate was sealed.Bold mine-
Her inaction enabled him, no doubt. But I think it’s important to take points like that into consideration. Why? Because half a lifetime ago, I saw this:
Realizing that 2 out of 3 of us would dutifully electrocute an old man to death just because a man in a white coat tells us it’s necessary for the experiment (with no explanation as to why it’s necessary and no more incentive than $4 plus cab fare [admittedly, closer to $40 in modern times, but still]) really puts shit like that into perspective. And, just for the record, while Milgram’s original study didn’t include women or racial minorities, further replications showed there was no real difference.
If that’s true, if those odds are right, with such little incentive to go along, what do you think would have been the results if the entire infrastructure of your life demanded that you go along with it?
I grew up in a family with generations of abuse in the family history - not sexual as far as I know - but I was trained not to talk about it. What I did was break that cycle when I had kids of my own...because I can think for myself and I knew that shit that was kept secret was wrong.
I do not, and will not ever, give his wife a pass. Period, full stop.
I'm your huckleberry.
