Yes, it was so much better when women were locked into loveless marriages with abusive spouses.
A few days ago, going through some memorabilia of my mother's, I found the original promotional material for this syndicated column, launched in 1993. I was billed as "A New Conservative Voice for Young Women!"
More than 17 years ago, I set out to explain how a Yale-educated young woman from a secular Oregon family could become a social conservative:
Every life is precious. It is better to care for your children than to kill them. Divorce hurts children; it also breaks apart life's most precious commitment -- a family.
Men and women are different. A society that pretends otherwise is...
So, now we're going to bully every teenaged boy who prefers art to sports, that he's a homosexual, and if he decides he's not, he's going to be ostracized.
you come across as a totally close-minded jerk.
and to follow your line of reasoning, it is far better for women to be treated as mere sexual objects than as equal spouses.
there you go, now everyone knows the foundation of your wisdom -- that being a visceral hatred of women.