Traditionally, men were delegated to the political realm, that doesn't mean that women were being oppressed by them.
Yeah, I'm sure that the women yawned and said, "Politics is such a bother, with all that arguing and deciding who gets what - you men go do it while I clean the home, haul the water, cook the meals, mend the clothes, birth and care for the children, submit to beatings if I displease you (or for no reason in particular), ask your permission to come and go, and not inherit anything if/when you die."
What would happen to a woman's right to the property if she left her husband in Rome? Who possessed the superior inheritance rights - a wife or a son?
It depends on which time frame you're talking about. In some ways women were freer in the Republic than in the Empire. Augustus made some changes regarding women; women got extra privileges if they had borne three children (Augustus was concerned about the birth rate), but penalized a childless woman between the ages of 20 and 50 if she did not marry within six months of being divorced or within a year after becoming a widow (Source:
Roman Women: Their Lives and Habits; Balsdon; p. 222). He made some pretty harsh laws in other ways. He banished his own daughter for adultery; she was confined on a succession of small islands, and eventually starved to death after Tiberius cut her food ration past the point of sustainability.
Women could inherit, but were still legally under the control of their father or husband or grown son.
With respect to 2., women can unilaterally opt out of having to have responsibility for a child after sex by say adoption (and not telling the man), or in enough cases abortion. Men don't have such a right to unilaterally opt out having responsibility for a child after sex. And culturally speaking such men get called "dead beats". I don't know of any slightly similar term for women choosing to opt out of parental responsibility and some people really do believe that even if their opting out involves the death of a sentient child, such opting out works out as morally acceptable.
If you mean abortion, then say so. If you mean something else, then clarification is needed.
Also, in terms of family relations the whole notion of patriarchy even historically speaking seems exaggerated. Even in places where wives couldn't own property but husbands could, that doesn't exactly show patriarchy. It can indicate male preference, but patriarchy has to involve rule by the father. If the husband who owns property and the wive can't, but the husband is not the father of the children he raises, then he is simply not a patriarch, because he is not the father. And men raising children who are not their own for one reason or another is as old as humanity.
You're taking this far too literally. Since Rome was brought up earlier, it was not unusual at all for men to adopt heirs, even if the heir in question was already an adult. The adoptee owed the adoptive parent the same duties and loyalties that a natural child would owe. The adoptive parent was the head of the family and had control over everyone in the household - his wife, his children (no matter their ages or marital status), and his slaves. If he was a patron to others, he had a right to expect certain loyalties from them, as well.
With respect to 6. a man's shirt and a woman's blouse are not the same goods. With respect to discounts at business, I think those generally apply to say car washes or discounts on the same goods. Also, do you really think that a woman's blouse is just about as complicated as a man's shirt? I mean, don't men generally dress more plainly, perhaps prudently, perhaps boringly, than women?
I buy my plain, mono-colored t-shirts from the men's section of a particular store. They're a hell of a lot cheaper than they'd be if I bought anything similar from the women's section, and there are more sizes available. Not to mention, the neckline doesn't plunge as though all women want to show off their "assets". Granted, I'm not likely to find anything in pinks, purples, or a few other shades I like... but they fit, they're comfortable, and they've lasted years. I hate shopping for clothes, and only do it when absolutely necessary.
There are many items that perform the same function for both sexes, but the women's versions are priced higher than the men's versions. FFS, some years ago they (some marketers) decided that women needed our own special "pens for women" - in pink and purple - as though plain ball-points are too hard for us to manage. Of course the price was higher than the normal pens. And I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a tool kit - hammer, screwdrivers, pliers, etc. - marketed to women. Naturally, all the handles were pink and the price was a lot higher than I'd expect to pay at the nearest hardware aisle at the mall.
Pedobear would fit that description. So yeah, I guess I like rape memes.
Wow.
I guess you'd have loved the set of Collectibles that was available on the Cheezburger site a few years ago. The set involved a series of four cereal boxes, one of which had Pedobear on it, with a thinly-disguised name of a popular RL cereal. There was a backlash from a lot of us who were participating in this activity, and after a group threatened to report Cheezburger's associating the cereal company with rape to the cereal company itself, the set was pulled and a substitution was made.
This is not funny. Not at all.
The Romans literally crucified people they didn't like. Do you really think that they crucified women close to as many men as they crucified?
Some women were crucified, yes. There were many execution methods used - strangulation, starvation (that's what ultimately happened to Augustus' daughter Julia, and Claudius' sister Livilla (because she murdered her husband - who was Tiberius' son and heir - and conspired with Sejanus to murder Tiberius himself), being buried alive, being stabbed to death, beheading...
Their is no shortage of wars in Roman history, is there? Did the Romans target the women in those wars, or did they target the men? Who suffered wounds on the battlefields? Who died or got seriously crippled because they were working with iron? Did the women work the iron mines? Who died or got seriously injured when they built their aqueducts? When the Romans wanted slaves did they mostly want women slaves, or male slaves to ease the burden of heavy manual labor?
Women were considered spoils of war, and yes, they wanted them for slaves - plenty of manual labor was performed by women, and the Roman attitude of the "virtuous woman" was one who kept the home, raised the children, and spent her time quietly, spinning and weaving. Even the aristocratic women and girls in Augustus' household were expected to do their share of spinning and weaving; that was considered an essential skill for a girl to learn before she was married off.
This is basically what I mean by I hate male feminists and only respect the female ones. That the male feminists are the man haters, and the female feminists have empathy.
Interesting. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is a self-proclaimed feminist. I haven't noticed any indication that he hates men.
