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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 10:43 AM Feb 2013

This can only be described as torture.

"The standard version of the Frances Farmer story goes like this: An idealistic young actress challenges the hypocrisy of her world and becomes the victim of a spiteful mother, a vengeful Hollywood, and a cabal of callous and arrogant psychiatrists. Together they force her into a state mental hospital, where she is brutalized by electric shock and other barbaric treatments; raped by orderlies, fellow inmates, and soldiers from a nearby Army base; and eventually lobotomized. Her rebellious spirit finally shattered, she leaves the institution an atomized half-woman, only a shadow of the vibrant artist she had once been. "


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This can only be described as torture. (Original Post) damnedifIknow Feb 2013 OP
God you say? damnedifIknow Feb 2013 #1

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
1. God you say?
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 12:13 PM
Feb 2013

Well then, why doesn't he stretch his almighty arm out, grab someone by the throat and stop this kind of shit from happening to people? Nobody should have to endure a living nightmare such as this.

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