Pillory Torments
Here we see a happy, Gynarchy couple tormenting a helpless prisoner-slave in the town square pillory. The bright and beautiful young woman is painfully pinching the prisoner’s confined ear – though I’ll wager it’s not half as painful as the heavy stone of shame pulling down on his bowed-neck muscles!
Meanwhile the young woman’s husband – a mechanic – is asking the fool how he is liking it – having his ear pinched by a beautiful woman, whom he confirms, by the way, is his lovely wife? Is he frightened of her? The slave, naturally, confirms that, begging the master-sir’s pardon, he does not like it much, sir, as it is very painful, sir, and he is indeed frightened of the master-sir’s wife, if the master-sir would be so kind and understanding ‘I am at your mercy master-sir and mistress-madam.’
The laughing master-sir, an alpha male, rather than showing any sympathy for the prisoner-slave, zeta male, appears instead to be threatening the latter with a wrench. It’s not clear exactly what the smiling master-sir plans to do with said wrench – tighten the stone around the prisoner’s neck? Or his metal slave-collar? Or the shackles on his wrists? Or just use it to twist the fool’s other ear?
And speaking of fools, let it be stressed that this prisoner-slave has committed no crime. He has merely been put in the pillory because he’s a fool, and a slave, who likes socks. The words of ignominy affixed to the rough, wooden beams around his humble, hurting head make that perfectly clear! And so we may surmise that, for all his sufferings and humiliations at the hands of this handsome couple, the greatesttorment of all for the fool must simply be that he is unable to see the young woman’s socks whilst she humbles him – due to his view of her feet being obscured by the heavy stone of shame hanging from his sore neck!
Haha! And he reallyis missing out whilst he suffers – for, unlike him, we can observe that she’s wearing a nice pair of plain grey, finely-stitched socks with brown loafers! Haha, what a loser – a sock-fancying loser!
