It's a possibility. Though I suspect it's about equally possible that you read troglodytism into what is only a facet of somewhat differing opinion. I don't honestly believe that grumpyolddog sees women as anything lesser than men, but if he does, I am fairly sure he'll jump up and tell us so.
I don't live in a cave, unless they're made of bricks and have windows and doors these days. And sofas and stuff.
To clarify previous statements:
1. I agree that anyone can choose to be called whatever they want and good luck to 'em.
2. I dispute that couverture was 100% an Evil Masculine Thing Of Much Badness Which We Should All Remember To Prevent Recurrance! The reagarding of both parties as a single legal entity worked both ways. For example (just one example) in 1485 in Bath, a man was hanged for a murder committed by his (ansent) wife. One could also find positive aspects working both ways, too. It's not evil although like most things, it could be used in a variety of ways. What it is now is just old, gone and obsolete.
The comparison is a little like claiming to perform an action (or not) because people were once imprisoned or flogged for homosexuality.
And finally, since this kind of massed wrath and outrage is something I do not wish to see again (it's not only misplaced, it's ugly and unnecessary), I'll regard Ailbhe's opinion in Ailbhe's journal as implicitly sacrosanct from now on and keep my big mouth shut.
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Date: 2007-12-19 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-19 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-19 08:54 pm (UTC)Now boggle.
I'm still boggling.
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Date: 2007-12-19 10:07 pm (UTC)Wronger than, uh, I don't know, salty liquorice ice-cream. At least. No, vastly more wrong.
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Date: 2007-12-19 08:45 pm (UTC)(Does that mean that
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Date: 2007-12-19 10:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-20 02:04 am (UTC)To clarify previous statements:
1. I agree that anyone can choose to be called whatever they want and good luck to 'em.
2. I dispute that couverture was 100% an Evil Masculine Thing Of Much Badness Which We Should All Remember To Prevent Recurrance! The reagarding of both parties as a single legal entity worked both ways. For example (just one example) in 1485 in Bath, a man was hanged for a murder committed by his (ansent) wife. One could also find positive aspects working both ways, too. It's not evil although like most things, it could be used in a variety of ways. What it is now is just old, gone and obsolete.
The comparison is a little like claiming to perform an action (or not) because people were once imprisoned or flogged for homosexuality.
And finally, since this kind of massed wrath and outrage is something I do not wish to see again (it's not only misplaced, it's ugly and unnecessary), I'll regard Ailbhe's opinion in Ailbhe's journal as implicitly sacrosanct from now on and keep my big mouth shut.
Self-censorship 4tw?