'And thanks, Emma, but I'm well aware of how some women were once treated'

Well actually, as I believe I pointed out, it was how ALL women were treated prior to the fight for equality and the freedom from being 'protected' from making life decisions by a paternalistic society.
It might have saved some bandwith if you posted as though you were aware of some historical context instead of 'I don't know any men who would want to do that'


"That's my point. You can't blame ALL men for the few bad ones."

Well I don't Lizzie - perhaps you can demonstrate where I have ever done that?
I was brought up in the principle expressed in religious terms as 'loving the sinner not the sin' but not in the concept of 'original sin'

Fortunately, I also don't regard all women on the basis of some of the ill informed and wilfully misleading things you have posted here either.


"so I know that not all men are evil little bastards, as some women still like to think of them...Thank you"

It does seem to me Lizzie that you are the only person who keeps bringing this idea up, as far as I can see the women posting here are all in perfectly satisfactory relationships with men they respect and who respect them as individuals NOT because they were conditioned to behave in certain ways to 'ladies'