Jack trys but failed to laugh off the facts about his tyrant of a grandfather stoping welsh from voting. Even he had to just shut up hear the truth as you can't make a joke of what ended in a bloodbath and john frost sent to hard labour in Australia. If this was in a book it would be best seller. The story John Frost (Chartist) and his arch enemy Thomas Phillips (mayor) a story still told in wales today.
Who Do You Think You Are? (TV Series)
Jack and Michael Whitehall (2019)
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WHO DO YOU THINK IS TO BLAME?
candyapplegrey6 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I don't want to be too #MeToo about it but in this latest enthralling episode of long-running series Who Do You Think You Are , featuring Michael and Jack Whitehall, the typical misogyny was sadly at play.
The historian Jane Hammond bemoaned the fate of poor commercial travellers 'exposed' to 'all sorts of temptations while on the road', most of them supplied by immoral and available women. The passage from Dickens's speech attached no blame to the women he mentions but rather lampoons the men's allegedly 'chaste and innocent admiration of its (a hotel's) landlady' and 'fraternal regard for its handsome chambermaid'. But the historian interprets this to mean that the said travellers were 'potentially fraternising with women of dubious moral repute'. Surely it's the men who have dubious morals and who are probably harassing any woman they come across?
And in the case in question the philandering traveller goes on to infect his perfectly innocent wife with syphilis, which sends her mad before killing her. Let's not again lay the blame at the door of the women, for goodness' sake, as do TV shows such as 'Murderers and Their Mothers' - no one ever blames it on the murderer himself or indeed his father.
Professor Hilary Marlin at least recognises that 'Women were seen as the vulnerable victims of men's sexual misbehaviour', which is more like it.
The historian Jane Hammond bemoaned the fate of poor commercial travellers 'exposed' to 'all sorts of temptations while on the road', most of them supplied by immoral and available women. The passage from Dickens's speech attached no blame to the women he mentions but rather lampoons the men's allegedly 'chaste and innocent admiration of its (a hotel's) landlady' and 'fraternal regard for its handsome chambermaid'. But the historian interprets this to mean that the said travellers were 'potentially fraternising with women of dubious moral repute'. Surely it's the men who have dubious morals and who are probably harassing any woman they come across?
And in the case in question the philandering traveller goes on to infect his perfectly innocent wife with syphilis, which sends her mad before killing her. Let's not again lay the blame at the door of the women, for goodness' sake, as do TV shows such as 'Murderers and Their Mothers' - no one ever blames it on the murderer himself or indeed his father.
Professor Hilary Marlin at least recognises that 'Women were seen as the vulnerable victims of men's sexual misbehaviour', which is more like it.
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