[Ichneumon]

Another victim of women's liberation. It used to be that if a woman entered unescorted into the residence of a strange man, then that woman did so on her own recognizance. In other words, don't come crying to us later.

Ah yes, the "good old days" when you could have molested a woman if you could just entice her into trusting you for a moment, and nothing she could do about it, eh?

Sorry, but in reality it "used to be" that if a woman turned out not to be safe in the unescorted presence of a man after all, the brothers/father/relatives of the woman would go "visit" the man and "inform" him of the error of his ways. Your "glory days" of women being free for the taking without repercussions to you if they "asked for it" by being alone with you never existed.

In some African tribes I have read of, a woman marries a man by simply entering his hut with the man and spending time alone. This is beneficial behavior to the tribe, as it spares the tribes resources in he-said/she-said arguments,

It's only "beneficial" to the tribe if you consider it better to let women be treated as property just to avoid having to "bother" with protecting them from being used sexually against their will.

Excuse me if I don't share your approval of such arrangements.

I suggest you pick a new screen name, you clearly pine more for an age of barbarism than for the age of reason.

[Freedom4US]

A bachelor does not ask a young woman to visit his apartment alone late at night unless he does not care about her reputation - or suspects that she does not care about it either. That's how things used to be done, anyway. Why the anonymity afforded our young lady now? Women are, after all, now the very equal of men. Or not? Or just, sometimes?