Goodness!

[rivka]

Watch a libertarian attempt to explain that women were much, much more free back in the days when they couldn't vote, own property, or enter into contracts.

Then explain to me why anyone still expects people to take libertarianism seriously.

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[oursin.livejournal.com]

I think I saw a follow-up yesterday to this, in which he was trying to weasel out of someone's counter-argument re marital rape (i.e. that this was not legally a concept in those golden days and therefore wives had no recourse against marital sexual violence - or of course against non-sexual marital violence).

Just because me, I could make a cogent case that not all Victorian women were helpless oppressed victims of the patriarchy (HAI! I can bore for Europe on this topic), doesn't mean I think that being a Victorian woman was hunkydory and that it isn't, all in all, much, much better to be a C21st woman.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

That's it: law (and custom) sets the lower limit. Good people are still good people.

As for the others... As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list--I've got a little list.

[Exit, embarrassed, stage left.]