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"Ever hear the Story of Paul Revere? Utter bullshit - the only reason anyone even remembers his name today is because it was easy to rhyme. Revere was one of several riders and he was captured nearly as soon as 'the ride began', among a great many other discrepancies.

Ever hear how Thomas Edison invented the light bulb? Also bullshit - the electric light bulb had been around longer than Edison had been. All he really came up with was the screw base and a slightly improved vacuum technique. Oh, and furniture made from concrete

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Nearly all the crap you hear about women being treated like shit throughout history is pure Feminist propaganda. Unlike most Feminists, I'm not only old enough to have personally lived through some of the 'Dark Ages', but also knew my great-grandparents quite well - what I haven't experienced first-hand, I've experienced far closer to the source than most others.

Bottom line to the entire equation is that society is built to serve biology, and only women are capable of giving birth.

Picture a neolithic hunter/gatherer society, where your principle source of protein are animals large enough to kill you faster than you can blink. Who, logically, would you send to try to take down something like a mammoth?

Would you send the children to go fight one of these things? Of course not. Women are quite capable, yes, but there are babies to care for and what do babies eat? They don't - they nurse. Mother dies, kids die. And what of pregnant women? Could you see a woman steelworker on the job within a week of her due date?!? Odds are that she's barely able to walk. (Assuming a single birth - what if it's twins or triplets?)

No, you're going to send the men. Once the pregnancy is underway, the man can die and nothing changes - everything depends on the woman's survival.

Throughout history and across cultures, last stands were fairly common - the women would lead the children and elderly away from danger while the men prepared to meet their own deaths in the slim hope that their sacrifices would buy sufficient time for the women to get everyone else to safety.

And let's not forget the Birkenhead Drill

  • during the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, men were shamed, assaulted, and even killed for daring to board the lifeboats while women and children remained in danger. Some exception was made for men who accompanied their wives and children, though many of these men gave up their seats to other women and kissed their wives goodbye knowing they were soon to die.

Not only are there deeply embedded social strictures against fighting someone significantly weaker than yourself (which mostly applies to men and mainly benefits women) but men have near always been taught from youth to never hit a woman - "even if she has it coming".

Think not? Look no farther than Carrie Amelia Moore Nation.

Had any man come into a saloon wielding an axe, he'd have been shot dead before he took three steps. Carrie Nation, on the other hand threw stools into bars, shattered casks with her hatchet, and smashed men's faces in with her Bible, singing hallelujahs as she went. She was arrested on a few occasions, but no man ever dared raise a hand against her.

Do you honestly see much "women being treated horribly" going on here?

Let's say you're a computer tech - you've been building and troubleshooting computers since you were a kid and you're familiar with every operating system from CP/M to Windows 10 and most every flavor of Linux. Maybe you've even actually designed a microprocessor.

Dad thinks "RAM Disk" is how you install software on a computer and Mom thinks the 'Scuzzy' port is part of the computer that really needs cleaning. But their computer is on the fritz and they have important work to do with it.

IDEALLY, if you had scads of time and the patience of ten Job-s, you'd walk them through everything step-by-step, explaining everything as you go, teaching them how to track down what went wrong, how to fix it, and how to keep it from happening again. Much more probable, you'd push them aside and do it yourself - getting the job done better, faster, and with far less frustration than delegating the task to them.

Such was the case through most of human society. Men were expendable, so they're the ones who took the risks in exploring, early commerce, and so forth. When civic affairs came up, they were the ones who had seen the enemy with their own eyes, knew the lay of the land, and had been taught from youth how to capitalize on what advantages they could. They were the ones to brave weather and bandits along wandering trade routes in order to bring back exotic oils for their wives and novelties for their children.

Until the industrial age, nearly all employment was onerous back-breaking work beyond the scope of what women were capable of. Furthermore, living standards had evolved to the point where a housewife spent 6-12 hours per day simply maintaining the home. If you've ever had to wash a load of laundry by hand, you'd understand why most historians regard the automatic clothes washer to be the most liberating advance in the history of women. Add better home heating (eliminating the need to spend an hour per day cleaning soot from the walls), grocery infrastructure (no need to maintain your own cow for milk or chickens for eggs), and countless other innovations - all invented by men, I might add - women were empowered with 4-8 hours per day to pursue their own interests.

Looking back through a historical lens, it's worth noting that women's suffrage came about in each society almost the exact same time that society reached this same technological standard. It's also worth noting that only a small minority of women actually wanted voting rights - most actively objected to voting rights because they feared it would mean giving up some portion of their special protections and privileges. (See Carrie Nation, above.)

Also worth noting is that the voting age was later lowered from 21 to 18 in response to protests arising from the Vietnam War - young 18-20yo men were being sent overseas to die by a government in which they had no voice. Laws might not always keep up with changing times, but it's not through lack of effort.

Throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, women had special access to resources men didn't. An old widow woman could walk into the grocers to pick up a carton of eggs, loaf of bread, and quart of milk and walk out without paying. When women enjoyed public entertainments, some man or other was expected to pay her way or she was admitted without charge.

Part of why women used to be paid less than men was due to the above - they had fewer expenses and actually needed far less money than men (who were expected to pay on behalf of women). The other part is that employees used to bid for how low of wages they would work and, in the process of underbidding men, took over quite a number of once-male-dominated professions.

Throughout most of history, however, birth control was virtually non-existent - having sex meant a high probability of pregnancy and (unlike today) no one in their right minds would even consider the possibility of willingly terminating a pregnancy. It was simply 'the wages of sin', though societal norms also forced the child's father to provide for the woman's every need. (In fact, it became standard practice for women to seduce men and become pregnant to force a man to marry and provide for her.)

One can never properly evaluate history through a modern lens. To quote Mark Twain:

The past is a whole other country - they do things quite differently there.

While some aspects may seem far less appealing by today's standards, human society has nearly always valued women over men. Rights, responsibilities, and privileges were seldom the same, but they were usually pretty close to equal."