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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 3:45 pm
A disturbing look at life inside a magdalene asylum. In Ireland women were sent to these nun run asylums in order to "cleanse" their "dirty spirits by cleaning clothing & keeping their yappers shut. These women commited the terrible crime of sex outside marriage(gasp) <apparently it was ok for men to do the same. CAN YOU SAY DOUBLE STANDARD?? The only way the "wayward" women left is either through dying,escape,or if a relative claimed them. One valuable lesson is this-not all nuns and clergy are holy. They treated the women like dirt. These asylums stopped their barbarism in 1996. An estimated 30,000 women suffered during the history of the asylums. One of the women was sent there only because she was beautiful!! Oppression in any form is intolerable.
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Tishala
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08-01-2000
| Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 4:30 pm
Yes, this was a very good film.
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