I'll be blunt, women were never oppressed for centuries. To believe that women were collectively oppressed for hundreds of years is absurd. In ancient times, things were dangerous. Humanity didn't have the sanitized lives it has now. And who dealt with these dangers? Mostly men. Women were kept in the home because they simply would not be able to do the brute labor or dangerous things the men could do.

In fact they weren't really kept in the home. That would tell me the many generations of tailors, seamstresses, midwives and even some duchesses never existed. Point is, I do not believe the "women were oppressed for centuries" narrative is true.

Did abuse exist? Yes, but it absolutely was not universal. Yes, one can argue convincingly that women were abused, so were men, arguably worse at some points in time.

But abuse isn't the core of this post. To assume a whole or partial collective of an entire gender was oppressed for centuries, is absurd.