“Talk to a psychologist, a sociobiologist or a mother and you learn that men are naturally restless and rowdy, maybe even a little incorrigible,” Cotton explained. “Throughout time, though, women and social institutions have conspired to break man’s unruliness. In the past few decades, however, they have largely abandoned that noble and necessary project.”

If you’re an adult of any gender and aren’t adulting, it’s not my job to parent you.

I was relistening to an episode of the podcast “The age of Napoleon” and it was about the Code Civile and (partly) about how it reverted women’s rights concerning divorce. During the French revolution women gained a lot of rights, including the rights to divorce from abusive husbands. The Code Civile actually reverted some of those rights, hence why this was mentioned, but it’s quite amazing that over 200 years we are still having these discussions.

Is it really that difficult to not consider 50% of the population inferior by default?