"Really, corporal punishment in 1914 -- how shocking - pfft! If you don't like it, that's fine and I have no problem with that, but expecting characters to conform to today's sensitivities is silly."
Sorry you found my comment "silly," but maybe that's because you missed my point, which was to contrast the great angst over Billy hitting Julie (and Louise) in CAROUSEL as compared to Alfie Doolittle's free admission that, sometimes in the past, he beat his daughter Eliza with a strap. My post had nothing to do with my "expecting characters to conform to today's sensitivities," as I have no such expectation or wish. |
