2007-04-15 15:14:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Because in your mind it's 1873.
2007-04-15 15:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
What you are trying to say still rings true for some women who comes from "backward" countries or those from the Islamic countries.
I have an Indonesian maid who IS considered a "property" to her family. She was forced to marry a man without her consent by her father. She ran away 2 days before the wedding but was found and drag home by her father. She got married and her husband drag her everywhere with him (he's a bricklayer and hope from town to town). He locked her and their young son inside the house when he's working. She was prevented from speaking to anyone or even go out of the house to buy food without him. Finally, the husband has no choice but to force his wife to work as a maid in a foreign country to settle the huge debt he owed other people. See, in this case and many other cases in Indonesia, the women ARE STILL THE PROPERTY of the MEN and they have no way to escape.
Women in other developed countries are much better as we are not properties of anyone but ourselves.
2007-04-15 16:08:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people have reacted very angrily to this, and it's absolutely true that women are not property anymore!!
However, if you changed the "are" to past tense (were), then there were reasons. Before birth control, it was a lot easier for women to get pregnant. And raising a kid on your own is tough even in these enlightened times! So women gave up a lot of their rights to self-control in order to ensure that they (and any children) would be protected. The father's duty was to protect the girl so she wouldn't get pregnant. He then turned over his "rights" to the girl to her new husband, who protected the woman and any children. When the husband died, then the woman's destiny was turned over to her son, who was to see that she was protected and taken care of in her old age.
These days, motherhood and taking care of a house isn't a full-time job. So, it's easier for a woman to be her own woman, even if she should happen to have a child or two.
The property thing was limited only to a certain time in history, and woman did have some power to buck the system, even then. But it took a really strong-minded woman to do so. Other countries and times have found different solutions to the problem of taking care of a woman who is busy taking care of her offspring.
2007-04-15 15:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by Madame M 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
that would suggest I don't need to pay my taxes right. The gov can't control someone elses property, the whole reason we freed the slaves and the emancipation proclamtion right.......ummm okay I will be my dads property...I sure can't find a husband to be property of.
2007-04-15 15:24:43 · answer #4 · answered by uhohwhatswrong 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Western society a newborn- toddler- is the duty of her(his) father...and mom. the father could be protector, mentor, buddy. via the time a female is 20 or extra she could be dealing with the worldwide on her very own words. In a marriage the relationship could be team-mate, buddy, inter-cooperative concern solver. "materials" is slavery. be conscious that the father or Husband as nominal head of the domicile and kinfolk needs to workout management and authority. youthful toddlers constantly push the envelope and would desire to be saved in verify for his or her very own reliable yet in rational, lawful, and with any luck loving techniques.
2016-11-24 21:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by willens 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is basis of my problem with paying dowry even if a cent is exchanged. The basic principle of the woman as property and the symbol being exchange of property between 2 men
John G, women have gained dignity and a right to decide their fate by demanding equality. Protection from what? Wild bears? Children need protection not adult women. Thank god for gender equality.
2007-04-15 15:33:06 · answer #6 · answered by uz 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
you are talking about the wedding ceremony, the whole "walking down the aisle" tradition i hope,and that exists because of old views of women as property. no one has thought to change it, so it remains the same. in a literal sense, no woman is property.
2007-04-15 15:44:34 · answer #7 · answered by hmm 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
What! Women are not property of anyone. We have a right to do whatever the hell we want to do. Don't ask stupid questions.
2007-04-15 15:17:54 · answer #8 · answered by Dbrown 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
They are not the property of anyone. Believe it or not we are people and not some personal item. We have half the money and all the p-----! So be nice, meow!
2007-04-15 15:19:14 · answer #9 · answered by chatticathi52 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
because women used to *actually* be property. today some people still speak in these terms for the sake of tradition. i find this both incredibly offensive and incredibly retarded.
2007-04-15 16:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by scruffy 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Property? What am I, a peace of land?
2007-04-15 15:34:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋