Throughout the song, I feel like Emilie alludes to infamous mental institutions of the 1800s, where a woman could be shipped off to and tortured just for talking back to her husband. It was a really godawful practice, as one might surmise from some of the song lyrics, and was famously brought to light by the notable journalist Nellie Bly in 1887. Particularly in the last verse, where Emilie lists various offenses women could commit to be sent to this place of "crazy girls". ("This is what comes of over-educating, mental over-stimulating, too much serious conversating...")
Throughout the song, I feel like Emilie alludes to infamous mental institutions of the 1800s, where a woman could be shipped off to and tortured just for talking back to her husband. It was a really godawful practice, as one might surmise from some of the song lyrics, and was famously brought to light by the notable journalist Nellie Bly in 1887. Particularly in the last verse, where Emilie lists various offenses women could commit to be sent to this place of "crazy girls". ("This is what comes of over-educating, mental over-stimulating, too much serious conversating...")