Like modern women occasionally do, the ladies of the Middle Ages often got together to discuss the latest gossip. They would get together over what I like to imagine as a medieval Sunday brunch, and chit-chat about the newest rumors. However, while women today face almost no repercussions for their idle chatter, women of the Middle Ages faced an extreme sort of corporal punishment – the Scold's Bridle.
The Scold's Bridle is one of those things that proves that no matter how hard being a woman can sometimes seem, compared to the Middle Ages, women today are doing just fine.
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