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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For most of history, women have expected men to "chase" them. The "you get to ask for a  date once and then must never ask again" rule is a brand new, modern, invention. Young feminists are moving the goalposts and pretending like it was that was from the beginning.[/quote]

For most of history, women have been the property of their fathers and then their husbands. They have expected to be sold off like property as part of a family economic plan. In the beginning, women didn't get to say no, ever, to their husbands. They were expected to say no to other men, but ultimately, those men could pretty much do what they wanted and then make amends to the women's father - not the woman herself. For most of history, women did not get to date. They did not get to move goalposts. They simply had to accept that their lot in life was to be married to someone they didn't choose, regardless of how amazing or terrible he was, and then have sex with him until they literally died in childbirth.

Don't give me this crap about how women have wanted men to chase them for most of history. For most of history, women have been PROPERTY. [/quote]

+1.  Husbands could force their wives to have sex, i.e. rape them, as an obligation of marriage. Marital rape did not start to become a crime until the 1960s. You're damn straight the goalposts are moving.[/quote]

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