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Is this what you are offering as your proof that women have never been trapped in abusive situations?

Yes, but you in all your gloriously displayed hypocrisy, desperate to discount any smudge on your favorite fantasy, choose to dismiss (and even more audaciously: summarize!) a comprehensively footnoted work you've never read, by a world renown military historian.

How comfortingly predictable.

You know what? I think you are winning me over. I think I LIKE your version of history better than the one I know. In your version, woman is Queen. Woman has harnessed unwitting man to slavery for centuries, reclining on her silk-cushioned bed while he labors to clothe her and feed her, then he dies young and leaves her with his money. Presumably, men were too stupid to ever catch on to what a dreadful deal this was for them.

I like it! And then, to add insult to injury, women decided that men were so unsatisfying, so dull, so insufficient, we'd rather plot through the university process, find work, miss our chance to marry, and grow old with cats and boxed wine, because even in slavery, men are so loathsome, we'd rather pick our own cotton. Now we use you for breeding purposes, fleece you in the court systems, and ... oh, are we also responsible for the wars that kill you? That would be delicious!