Ward was a vitcim of child abuse.
Ward said his father cut back on conversation by useing a razor belt.
shareYup, Ward's always telling anecdotes about how his father physically abused him. It's extremely creepy actually. It's probably the second-most creepy thing in the entire series (the #1 most creepy thing in the series is when June intentionally poisoned Eddie).
shareDon't know what kind of poison June used, but apparently it wasn't strong enough.
shareeddie was allergic to mayonnaise. june got pissed and put it on his sandwich anyways.
sharethat especially creeps me out because I hate mayo so much I have to do "mayonaise checks" in restaurants to make sure none of it even if its an ingredient in another sauce touches my food. Get this if some jerk uses the same knife that was in mayo and puts it in mustard I consider the entire container of mustard to be contaminated.
sharePurposefully feeding a child something that violates their food allergy is in some ways worse than a beating because a beating very rarely results in death (It can happen but it takes one HELL of a beating to result in death) but food poisoning can cause anaphilactic shock. There are people who can die or get very ill so ill they must be hospitalized if they eat the wrong food.
shareJune must have been a closet head case to do that. It sent the wrong messages to kids, that allergies were nothing more than someone being fussy, instead of it actually making them sick or possibly leading to death.
It would have been an interesting episode to have the police show up, take June into custody for attempted murder. Of course, on the way out the door, she would have told the boys to make sure they brush their teeth before going to bed, and instruct Ward to contact some relative to fill in for her duties at the household while she was locked up.
And after June was executed, Ward would marry the "relative".
Unless it's Aunt Martha!
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Some people talk about those kinds of things as if they were a badge of courage to have been beaten as a child. Sick.
shareSome people talk about those kinds of things as if they were a badge of courage to have been beaten as a child. Sick.
Yup, that definitely seems to be the reason why Ward does it. And it definitely is sick. share
It shows that Ward was a "survivor".
I wonder if he had a deep-seated hatred of his own father as Beaver and Wally do with him.
I bet he did, but as was usual of his generation, he was expected to "man up" and never reveal his inner feelings, not even to his own wife.
I'm sure glad that parents like Ward and June Cleaver no longer exist in America.
It shows that Ward was a "survivor".
But "survivor" is not at all the tone of Ward's anecdotes. If it was, then their inclusion in the show wouldn't be sick. Rather, the tone is: "My father beat the crap out of me, isn't that funny?"  share
Hm, never noticed that.
I'll have to pay better attention next time.
I could see him mentioning it to teach his kids that is not how to treat children. But it really comes across too as a "I had it much harder than you kids have it now..." kind of stuff. As if to also guilt them into thinking they are a bunch of spoiled brats, because their father didn't come home drunk or whatever and take a belt to them.
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