Kartographer, I agree with you.
We could all use more tidy dressing, more gestures of respect, and more consideration for people as individuals rather than as useful objects.
Seriously ?? At a time men universally claimed it was a woman’s “duty” to respect and obey him, if that isn’t seeing someone as a useful object I’m not sure what is. I guess it is easy to gloss over many unhappy memories from the past and to have warm memories of the good times, especially when compared to all the pain and turmoil in the world today.