I said the mental ideas behind the acceptance of male authority and the legal right to physically beat a wife short of death are not by any means gone from our society. These ideas or attitudes lie behind Clarissa's family's infliction on her of their right to demand she marry Solmes. They are selling her. Is he also implying the rape is nothing. What would Lovelace or James Harlowe have to do to Clary to satisfy Mr Weitzman's ideas of violation sufficient to make one appalled or indignant or declare a crime has occurred.
Obedience is apparently all.
And as to the various interpretations of the OJSimpson trial and verdict they are many and of interest to Americans. When it was refused I was looked upon as unreasonable. When the class time ended he rushed to the front of the room, plugged that TV in and the whole class gathered round to watch and listen. People in the hall waiting for the next class came in to listen. The professor of the next class, like myself, had to wait until the verdict was heard.