[Jim Noble]

a time when one party was essentially treated as slaves w/o rights under the law

A standard feminist lie.

[okiecon]

Women were not slaves under common law, but I still do not think we need to go back there. Common law was designed for landed gentry-types. Women had rights under common law. They were not slaves. Those rights might seem weird today and disproportionate though.

Either way, you guys can hopefully agree that this situation is wrong.

[cinives]

You need to read your history. You are saying with a straight face that women were not treated as property in the history of this country ?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/property_law.html