Is there some kind of party?

I'm talking of course about being "mocked" by manboobz, which I'll post here with context so you don't have to give him money.

Other Redditor: Women weren't allowed to own property or request divorces in most countries until the last 80 years. That is pretty oppressive. China didn't allow divorce or land ownership until the 1950s. Women in the U.S. only got to start owning property in the mid to late 1800s if their husband was temporarily unavailable (they couldn't "control it" though). Women coulldn't request a divorce in Great Britain until 1857, two years before women were allowed to teach in Denmark (wayy before Austria allowed it) or attend college in Russia (but not Sweden, Japan, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, etc) and 10 years before New Zealand women could own property in their name. In 1865 Italy allowed married women to become the legal guardian of her children and their property if abandoned by her husband. How progressive! How is this not both oppressive and possible? It was very widespread for a very long time.

Me: Are cats oppressed? They can't own property, or decide who they get to live with. None of what you're describing is oppression. Sorry. Throughout most of human history, we had a couple of hard truths that needed to be faced. The strength of a society is largely based on its population, and women can increase that population, while men can't. This meant that if a society needs to lose one or the other, they're going to send the man off to die nearly every time. Another hard truth throughout most of human history is that overt power makes you a target. Leadership meant assassination attempts. Property ownership meant you had something to lose. Since the cost to society was greater if a woman died, men were forced into taking those roles just as much as women were forced out of them. Maximum protection comes with a cost of freedom, and that doesn't at all imply oppression.

Manboobz: That last bit, about men being “forced” into having power, is quite something. But I’m still stuck on the whole cat thing. I mean, I like cats and all, but cats are not people, and it really wouldn’t be appropriate for me to lock a woman in my apartment, feed her on the floor out of a can, and make her poop in a box, even though my cats seem quite content with this arrangement for themselves.

That's it?

It's an analogy. Maybe it's not even a particularly good analogy, but the response is to someone giving [reasons] for why women were oppressed, and then I showed a different circumstance where no one considers [reasons] to be oppression. I also find it pretty ironic that 150 comments later, there's still no rebuttal. Just straw men and weak attempts at shaming.

I'm a little disappointed.