Only last week, Richard M Kavuma starkly illustrated what can happen when women attempt to take control of their lives – they receive a beating from their husbands.
Should you receive a beating, remember, first, that you are the mightiest knight alive, and thus they must have been enchanted, and, second, that it is the lot of the knight errant to experience discomfort, and this only increases the glory accruing to your eventual victory.
One was said to have received a beating of 800 lashes for an unspecified sin.
Prog received a beating when punk, its stripped-down opposite, became more influential.
"If they caught them, they shaved their hair off and sent them back to the front line". Boys also received a beating.
At 15, for instance, I played a hockey match (compulsory attendance, naturally) against the local grammar-school girls and received a beating from another Asian girl.
I remember, growing up, that there were chalk marks outside my primary school directing people to National Front meetings, and in secondary school there were sporadic "raids" by skinheads from the next door estate who would run round trying to intimidate the "darkies" (this came to a stop when they received a beating from the less than impressed students).
Though they both received a beating for showing defiance to being separated, they were released in good health.
Geoffrey Cassidy (left) received a beating after ex-NFL defensive back Tony Beckham (right) allegedly caught him masturbating outside his house.
A man in Florida was arrested after receiving a beating from a former NFL player who allegedly caught him masturbating outside his daughter's window.
