[fr_freak]

In places where women were abundant they were treated with no respect at all.

I was referring more to the culture overall, but now I'm curious as to which areas you are referring to. Big cities? If so, what makes you think they were less respectful to women than now?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Big cities are the places where we have the most written records.

And it is because I read the newspapers of the time. While upper class women were treated with some respect, although the prevalence of the muff pistol would perhaps argue against their having much faith in it, a women of the lower class would be treated with little or no respect as a general rule.

There were men who did treat all women with respect. They were not, sadly, the majority.