Guys, do you really believe women have had it 'as good as men' in our history?

Question

I am expecting the usual idiotic answers here from women-hater's, but I will respond by not responding to those 'answers'.

Please explain why and give examples...

:-)

Answer 1

I think Louise C brings up some good points. The majority of people both male and female throughout history lacked the rights many of us take for granted today.

I believe at times women have had it worse than men while at other times they may have had it better. For example while women may have lacked some of the freedoms men had, they were also in many cases spared some of the most horrific experiences such as those men had to suffer at the front lines of wars etc. Obviously there are exceptions, but we are dealing with generalities in this question.

I also think that judging the past by the standards of today is not always the best way to look at things, as standards change over time ... while we may look back at some things in the past and think how horrible and inhumane they were surely those who follow us will look at aspects of our lives which we accept as perfectly normal and consider them horrible or barbaric in some way. Who knows what atrocities we are committing right now by the standards of the 24th century.

Answer 2

Throughout most of history most men and women have had to work very hard, and in most places until quite recently, men's 'rights' were very restricted, or non-existent.  the idea that all men were having a whale of a time in history while women were miserable, oppressed, ill-treated etc does not really bear close examination.  Most feminists appear to know little or nothing about history.  For instance, they are always going on about women not being able to vote, but until fairly recently most men couldn't vote either.  In england, for instance, the majority of men did not have the vote until the late 19th century.  And in America, while much is made of the fact that black men got the vote before white women, most black men were effectively disenfranchised by state laws in the southern states until the 1960s, so white women were in fact able to vote 40 years or so before most black men.

Answer 3

Really it's like comparing oranges to apples.  It depends on whether you view life via the male or female perspective.  History can mean thousands or millions of years.  How do you compare the life of a man (who died earlier, more often, quicker & more violently) to that of a woman (who often slaved away at home.)

Sometimes women had it better (than soldiers or those with dangerous jobs for example) and other times they had it worse (monotony and not getting jobs/life/independence/freedom they might have wanted.

Answer 4

Feminism is one particular view - that women are discriminated against because they had to stay at home to look after children and because they are not allowed to fight for their country or do certain jobs.

But this could just as easily be viewed as discrimination against men. Who wouldn't prefer to stay at home and look after kids instead of dying in wars and working down mines?

It's sad that some women (i.e. feminists) are so disappointed with the gender & s*x they were born with.

PS The term "women-haters" is a plural noun, therefore PLEASE don't put an apostrophe in it.

Answer 5

Men feeling put upon is not the same as women being owned like so much cattle. It was okay for men to beat their wives. It was okay to force her to have s*x if she had the title 'wife.'

Worldwide, women are still killed for being raped, beaten for being born with a v****a, sold into sexual slavery, sold to men who could be their grandfathers to be the 4th wife, being raped as payment for their brother's misdeeds.

Dress it up all you want. Yes, men have had their fair share of difficulties. HUMANITY has. It doesn't compare to the things women have faced, and are still facing. Today. Right this very second.

Also, just to make a point, I chose to join the Army rather than stay a housewife. Some women aren't made to sit still and clean up the same mess every day and cook every day and wait for the Mister to get home to relieve the tedium. So I'm a soldier, and here I am in Kuwait while my husband takes care of our kids back home. We're comfortable with that.

So if a woman wants to stay at home, by al means. Enjoy yourself! However, the heroines of our past worked too hard for that to be our only option. I'm exercising a different option.

Answer 6

No. But they deserved rights and Stuff.  ps. I am a man