The Lack of Solidarity

I didn't find the older thread that mentioned this but the lack of solidarity among the prisoners of these hellholes was due to their spirits having been broken by the repeated abuse.

These women and girls repeatedly were abused mentally, emotionally, physically, and sexually that their passivity doesn't surprise me at all. A web page I read about this said that not only was it worse than depicted in the film, but there were ones where the women were given numbers rather than names. While this film touched on the subject, I read that the Magdalenes weren't even permitted to talk to each other.

That had to have been because the nuns likely understood that it would have been the key to their ability to hatch a workable escape plan.

The fact that there were elderly women in this hellhole was testament to the effectiveness of the abuse. These women had been committed to this place in their youth, thereby wasting their entire lives in slavery.

In out time we probably lose sight of how difficult it would have been not only to escape from these places but how difficult to survive afterwards. They would have been hunted down and returned to the asylum and most had no hope of escaping to distant places or people willing to help them. The fact that any escaped at all sounds like a miracle to me.



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