We all know men who think they deserve to own women: This is a horrifying exaggeration of that.

[lumberjack_jeff]

203. To the extent that "the patriarchy" is a thing...

It is a set of cultural expectations growing from one central principle: protect the women, but especially your women because their lives are more precious than yours. The objectionable bits of sexist society are all symptoms of that central assumption.

Unfortunately, the core thing is an unassailable third rail of gender politics.

How big of a leap is it really, that men who accept their culturally-imposed responsibility to the wellbeing of the women in their proximity, interpret that responsibility as a mandate to override the women's self-determination? Anti-choicers generally think they are doing it to protect you from the consequences of a poor decision.

All relationships are transactional and conditional to one degree or another, even in healthy relationships. Everything else is a matter of valuation. If one thinks they are all that and a bag of chips, then they feel justified in demanding more of whatever convinced them to marry their partner.