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She is sure not to slam it because that would indicate anger and spanking a child when angry would be abuse. Sure, throwing a textbook on the floor and sobbing in frustrated rage isn’t going to further my education. Squeezing her eyes closed, she jerked when she felt a streak of fire land across her exposed bottom.
Nothing stings and burns as bad as an angry mother slapping your upper thighs over and over with a hairbrush! But neither is spanking my eight year old self for expressing my utter rage that I didn’t have someone who could help me understand. The sounds that came from that room were atrocious, I walked down the hall and cracked the door open to see what was happening, he was sitting in the middle of their queen sized bed curled up in a ball crying with a parent and a discipline instrument on either side. That meant bending over, perhaps touching one’s toes, or possibly draping oneself over a piece of furniture, such as that armchair or the desk in Uncle’s study.Each swat stung really bad, and I was crying for real, but I was also really glad that my pants were still up. When she’d burst into the bedroom I shared with my siblings, I very quickly tried to tell her that I wasn’t the one talking, or I just pretended to be asleep. Needless to say, I did everything in my power to not spend another summer at home until I finished college.
Even when I married, I took my petties with me, accustomed to the secure and familiar feeling of soft cotton wrapped around my legs.We were told constantly to be “modest”, but as soon as we were perceived as “independent”, “rebellious” or “talking back”, our modesty was no longer valued. But mainly I’m just angry, angry that the people who were supposed to love me beat me and treated me like a slave, angry that anyone would treat any child in that way. Once more Karen felt the wood leave the safety of her behind and heard its ever-so-faint oncoming sound in the air.