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Old 08-16-2016, 05:48 AM
 
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Yes, there are, but they like to discuss history. Not military fantasy, not whether 2002 was more like 2001 or 2003, not speculation about what men 200 years ago were like.

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LOL at people giving the OP of this thread more grief than the OP who asks about your favorite LGBT person.
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Old 08-18-2016, 09:06 AM
 
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I don't think many women will share my opinion but I feel like men treated women better in the past than they do now.

I think the right to vote needed to happen. Alot of the "recent" past; not so much, more propaganda inspired than anything.

I have read literally years worth of newspapers from the 1600's to early 1900's & the vibe I get from them is almost that women were held in high regard more so then than now.
Oh yes,I am sure many women would love to get beat by their husbands!

Yes,the good ole days where an abusive man did not have to worry about going to jail.

You just have a very romanticized view of the past.

Many people believed the wife stayed home but husband worked,but that is not true.

Many people do not seem to realize women of the past worked too. They usually worked on the farm in the fields with her husband .in addition to their other wife duties!
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Old 08-18-2016, 12:55 PM
 
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I don't think of them any different than I think of men today honestly.
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Old 08-18-2016, 01:01 PM
 
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I don't think many women will share my opinion but I feel like men treated women better in the past than they do now.

I think the right to vote needed to happen. Alot of the "recent" past; not so much, more propaganda inspired than anything.

I have read literally years worth of newspapers from the 1600's to early 1900's & the vibe I get from them is almost that women were held in high regard more so then than now.
On this, I think you are unaware of the status of women in society if you truly believe that modern history where a woman won the right to work even if she had young children and a husband, to have a bank account in her own name, to vote (which you mentioned), to be pregnant and be able to work until she feels she needs to go on leave, to not have to put up with the sexual advances of her employers and others, etc., were not big things in the lives of women. Just like today's media does not give a 100% accurate depiction of any demographic, neither did newspapers of the 1600s to the early 1900s an epoch where women and girls weren't even educated in school. Many women had to sue in the 1950s to even attend specific schools.

Your post reminded me of Florynce Rae Kennedy, a black, female, civil rights lawyer. She applied to Columbia Law school in the late 1940s and was denied, not for being black, but because she was a woman. She had to threaten to sue for them to admit her.

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LOL at people giving the OP of this thread more grief than the OP who asks about your favorite LGBT person.
On this, if the OP would have asked who our favorite male figure was in history and why, I think the OP would not have gotten as many negative responses. My favorite male figure in history is Frederick Douglass. One of the main reasons why I love him is because he was one of the first, prominent feminist and he just has an inspiration life.
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