Women Complaining About Lack Of Available Slavemasters

One of the favourite myths of feminism is that the mechanism by which men oppressed women was marriage.

Let us begin with a gem of historical research that can be found at Gynocentrism and its Cultural Origins. One Mrs. Charlotte Smith in 1896 was so riled up and so aghast at the numbers of men who were refusing to get married that she started a campaign to force men to marry, and called upon public servants and officials to “do something” about this calumny against women.

“There are 47,000 girls between the ages of 20 and 29 years in this state who cannot find husbands… [and] the bachelor politicians, they do not dare discuss the social evil question. No man can be a good, honorable and upright citizen who has not entered into the holy bonds of wedlock”

Now wait just a minute – that can’t be right – men are roaming the land in hordes, gathering together in secret patriarchy meetings, laying plans on how best to trap and enslave these fair maidens into marriage! Feminists have said so.

In her paper entitled Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women’s Rights, Karen Offen takes a jaunt through history to justify the use of the word or analogy “slavery” as comparable to the status of women

In case you haven’t noticed, Ms. Offen’s paper covers the period from the 1650s to 1848, a period during which women campaigned to have bachelors punished for refusing marriage. It is also a time in which we read of women having the legal liberty to choose for a husband any man who took her fancy, and if that man refused to marry her he was heavily fined according to the value of his possessions.

Let’s fast-forward a bit in history and the period just after the first World War. What was one of the major issues?

Condemned to be virgins: The two million women robbed by the war

Now take a closer look at the extracts from the letters cited in the article

Even when women were prepared to “settle” in a desperate attempt to “get married” there were conditions. The ladies preferred their men –injured or not, disabled or not, to be of a certain status. To be “Officers.” Hypergamy anyone? Gynocentrism?