beatings

So the village headman decides that you have a disorder and need treatment, by which he means regular beatings.

But that doesn't mean they were designed to only work under continous beatings.

I get that the aggression is unhelpful, but your comment ignores the years of murder, rape, and beatings that trans people have been through.

My generation was raised by beatings of orange Hot Wheel tracks, by Hippie/conservatives (father--conservative know it all.

Heck look at the amount of beatings he take in basically any movie, yet he is rarely damaged at all.

If you're told that to stay you will need to subject to daily beatings, then divorce is the right choice.

No, the beatings will continue for as long as you fail to respect the law.

These sects were often started by lay-people who disagreed with the lack of beatings being dolled out by their church leader.

Some economist wise cracked that prescribing austerity for a country in a depression† is like trying to cure a sick patient with regular beatings.

Virtually every major city in the US has a street named after MLK, but there are still cops here that single black people out for beatings.

Mob beatings for a 1 percenter that they deemed corrupt.

The rubberized Garmin Vivofit can handle the beatings.

So, in other words, "the beatings will continue until you come around to our views"?

Sort of like the saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

Not to speak for someone else, but the last sentence was clearly a reference to "The beatings will continue, until morale improves." You're right though.

Either way the beatings actually add to the suspicion that the approach - joined up or otherwise - was governed more by a "just because we don't have any evidence of your guilt doesn't mean we believe you're innocent" attitude than "we really badly want you to work for us"

Beatings and stabbings that were lethal 50 years ago are now routinely survived.