A) She was still a child.
B) She was imprisoned, repeatedly, and tortured, as the article discusses.
C) Is it your opinion that everyone was "lucky" to live in 1968 Spain under Franco. Or just her?
Please don't call a 17-year old person a child. It's not as if on the night between 17 years, 11 months and 30 days, and 18 years humans undergo some sort of metamorphosis.
The study that appeared to show them stopping development at 25 did not have any participants older than 25.
The difference between an 18-year-old and a 24-year-old is much more comparable to the difference between a 24-year-old and a 30-year-old.
We should be treating teenagers much more as adults-in-training, in the sense of meaningfully giving them the tools to succeed as adults, rather than treating them like pure innocent children who must be sheltered from absolutely everything hard, scary, or taboo.
However, as it stands we generally do not do that—hence, in this case, she was indeed a child, and should have been given compassion, better tools, and better chances, not locked up.
After 50 years, they seem to decline.
(And probably also drive, it always stuck us in Europe pretty weird you allow minors to drive in the USA as the car can be a very lethal tool).
So if 17 can't be called a child, what can? You have to draw the completely arbitrary like somewhere. Do you chose the legal 18 (in the US)? The Hebrew 13? Some other metric?
Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense. OP is making it clear that framing it as she was a “free spirit” is ridiculous.
This is a protest against a fascist regime we're talking about. I don't know the exact context of any of this because I'm not Spanish, don't speak the language, and don't really know all that much about the nuance of 1968 Spain. I'm fairly sure you're just as ignorant of this as I am but the difference is that I'm withholding strong judgement one way or the other instead of jumping on one detail.
I do know that throwing a bunch of tea you don't own in the sea is also trivially a criminal offence. Kicking the shit out of an SS-officer is also trivially a criminal offence. etc. etc. You can have a long discussion about when violence is or isn't justified. I don't know enough about this specific situation to have a strong opinion. But pretty much everyone agrees that at some point you need to look beyond the law and trying to reduce this to just a matter of the law is massively naïve at best.
Oh, word? It's dope you know the inner thoughts of everyone involved.
| Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense.
Article didn't say she threw them herself, 'a few' of a group she was part of did. Glad you're taking the maximalist, guilty until proven innocent, position on conviction by association in the Franco Regime.
My point is the story is disjointed and sad, but there is little cohesive theme aside from pure tragedy, and the narrative presented makes no sense.
You: "help", "That’s >- presumably <- why her parents sent her to a reform program."
The article: | [her parents] were so conservative they wouldn't even let Mariona wear trousers.
| "For them, it was a scandal, a stain on the family," she says. "After that, they wouldn't let me out."
| [after she ran away] They immediately reported her as an underage runaway to the authorities, and the moment Mariona was about to board a boat back to Barcelona, she was arrested.
| Mariona wasn't given any explanation [for sending her away] - she only remembers her parents' rage.
| her [second] escape was short lived. Within hours she was bundled into a car with her father and an uncle, and driven back to Madrid.
| Now aged 20, she vowed to never live with her parents again.
| "We suffered a lot too," [her father] told her when she asked him about the family decision to have her locked up in Madrid.
Her parents only care about themselves, 50 years ago and today, if you can't see that, there's something wrong with you.
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You: "My point is the story is disjointed and sad, but there is little cohesive theme"
The purpose of the article and the film, as written in the article, which you did not read:
| Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted were incarcerated, assuming the blame for their own abuse. Orphans and abandoned girls might also find themselves living behind convent walls.
| The film has contributed to a groundswell of calls for the interned women to be formally recognised under the law as victims of Spain's dictatorship.
| "Women come and tell their stories – it's like a door opened to something unknown, and that's very powerful," says Marina. "People think what happened in their own home was an isolated incident. We try to say: this history isn't individual, it was systematic."
| Her mother Mariona still doubts her memory sometimes.
| But, she says, "seeing it all reflected in the film, that gives it the weight of truth."
>>Oh, word? It's dope you know the inner thoughts of everyone involved.
Based on disclosed facts, actions taken (that are not in dispute), and statements by the perpetrators themselves before and after the fact, we can conclude that her parents do in fact care more about their own 'suffering' and 'status', more than their daughter's physical and emotional well-being.
You, on the other hand, just made shit up from whole cloth, but are too pathetic to stand on business and disagree directly.
If I could assign remedial reading comprehension lessons to anyone on Earth, today, I would choose you.
I would sure as hell hope people start throwing Molotov cocktails when someone like that comes into power.