BlackPhx
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ORIGINAL: awmslave Are you suggesting marriage is 24/7 slavery? Today? With the Metro-male today doing far more at home, cleaning, changing diapers, cooking, probably not so much. Though here in teh southlands there are still an awful lot of men with the ideal of go to work, come home, drink beer, watch tv, mow lawn, all else (house work, kids) is wimmens work. But if you step back a mere 100 years women didn't even have the right to vote, and prior to that had no right to own property, get a higher education, have a bank account etc. Many died in childbirth, having child after child after child until they were worn out. For a good portion of history a woman did not even have the right to choose her own husband, she could be given in marriage to whatever man her father felt was the right one and would meet his bride price. If he was poor, she faced toiling in the fields all day (or shops) and then coming home to do wash, cook, clean, care for the kids etc. Sounds like slavery to me...progress has been rapid in the past couple of centuries, but take a look at some other countries, especially 3rd world, or even the Islamic countries, women with rights within marriage are a rare avis compared to the rest. poenkitten
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