The Good Old Days?

I've been reading some rather disturbing comments on another bulletin board I frequent. The topic is Hillary Clinton and her presidential race. Now, I have no problem with people disliking/disagreeing with Hillary (after all, wouldn't it be a boring world if we all agreed?), and I'm not even 100% sure yet that she'll get my vote; I have to research her policies some more. But what disturbed me was comments made by women that said, "Women should never be president."

This threw me for a loop. I can understand if you don't want Hillary to be president, but women in general? I would think comments like this would come from white, conservative Christian 80-year-old men, not women in their 20s and 30s.

When pressed as to why exactly women shouldn't be president, many responded with, "There are some things men are better at, and leadership is one of them. In fact, I miss the good old days, when we had respectable men leading our households and treating us women like ladies."

Ahhh, yes, the good old days. When husbands and wives were considered, in the eyes of the law, to be one person: the husband. When corporal punishment inflicted on wives by their husbands was accepted, after all, he was only looking out for her best interests, correct? When marital rape was unheard of; after all, the husband and wife are the "same person" so he can do what he wants with "his" body, correct? Nothing says love like forcing your wife to have sex against her will. When white, middle class women had no other option but to be a homemaker. When minority women had to slave away at menial jobs and still do the "women's work" at home, because that was beneath the husband. When women couldn't cast a vote for lawmakers who would determine the policies and laws that women would be required to obey. Gee, sounds very idyllic, doesn't it?

All I can say is, thank God we've come as far as we have.