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In reply to the discussion: Is anybody asking men, "What if your wife was raped and became pregnant?" [View all]Myrina
(12,296 posts)Women can't vote.
Women can't drive.
Women can't own property.
Women can't travel alone.
Women "need help" choosing higher education fields & are discouraged from historically male ones like law & medicine.
Arranged marriages.
Not too much more of a slippery slope before we get to burka's and Blackstone's laws (women were their husband's property) Ever hear the term 'rule of thumb'? That came from Blackstone. A husband was not to beat his wife with a stick any larger than the width of his thumb. Smaller than that, though, was perfectly acceptable.
Other religions in the world already have these things in place, and not more than 125 years ago, the majority of them were commonplace here in the US, as a matter of 'feminine sensibility'.
Think the Talibornagains don't want to take us back there?
THIS is what worries me.