I just wanted you to say it again, Snookums. I like the way you talk.
Ever hear of 'IN the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant?'
I don't think the Hebrews in Egypt or Antebellum black people would appreciate you defining slavery down to such terms. There was a little more to it than that.
Men think it ...they feel they are inferior to women....thus not allowing us to vote and not wanting us to work (old days).
As a man, I feel inferior to women as a conscious choice because I find it stimulating while making love. I'm kinky that way.
Otherwise, I feel we are equals.
Not wanting women to work or vote was rather odd. I think it had more to do with thinking women should be cared for and not exposed to the hazards of hard labor (note that the feminist movement did not exist until "work" became defined as sitting in an air conditioned office all day. Not many feminists were squawking about their careers when work outside the home meant sweating in the fields enduring back breaking labor sun up to sundown six days a week).
How many guys do you know marry women from other countries? My brother did. He married a girl 20 yrs younger than him from South America...because he told me American woman are too independent. (Just wait till she grows up--LOL) I've seen many guys admit the same thing here in FR --often.
Well, there seems to be a preponderance of American women who see the hyper-feminists as role models and emulate them as much as possible. Most foreign women have yet to be infected with the "I'm such a b----, but you don't like it because you can't handle strong women" disease, yet. Most men just want to love someone and be loved in return.
That is apparently a concept that baffles many American women. But, not all. My American woman is a jewel. And no one who knows her would ever dare call her a "slave" or anything of the sort. She's as strong as they come. And I lover that way.
And there I think you've made a lot of good points, and I like your idea of why women weren't allowed to vote or work early on in the country's inception: the very idea of chivalry.