The Mask We Wouldn’t Want To Wear
We really have come a long way as a human race. There are things that were not yet accepted before that are now normalized. Women can now vote; people are now respected regardless of color; and the LGBTQIA+ community is slowly being accepted, not just tolerated. I couldn’t really imagine if one day, we all go back to the dark days of the past.
This device is called the Scold’s Bridle. Between the 1500s to the 1800s, it was used to publicly humiliate women who were found to be troublesome. It has a metal plate that would go inside the mouth and press on the tongue so that they can’t talk to each other. That is just really horrifying. I can’t imagine if we still had it done today.