Serious question

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94. Religion for the most part. The religious books be it Bible, Koran or whatever were written by men who claimed God

spoke to them. If you read the old testament God told them how to treat women. The man was so important that if the man died his brother was to take the widow into his household and treat her the way he treated his own wife. Women were treated like servants and if not a wife, they were consorts as well. In richer households they also had harems as well as wives. If the woman did something wrong, the man was to give her lashes. That is how it started and in some households it was passed down from generation to generation even if the were no longer strictly religious. The woman's "place" in a marriage was to cook, clean, raise the children and lay down on command for her husband. That was her only role. If she strayed from that, there were consequences.
As a child I saw a man on top of his wife, beating her with fists clenched. I turned to my dad and said "stop him". My dad replied "I can't, she is his wife so he is allowed". My dad never laid a hand on my mom except when he put his arm around her shoulder as they sat side by side.
I worked in a police department in the 70's and 80's. There were no laws against a man beating his wife. A woman could not buy anything on time without a man signing for her. She could not get a credit card in her name either. The Republican male wants to go back to those days. They had more control then. Since women made less than men doing the same job, they could not afford to leave a husband and support their children. They were stuck in marriages that were hell to endure. That is what the Right want to go back to.