The very first sentence spoken by the narrator was , "There has never been a better time to be a woman." Any study of anthropology or North American history would tell you that is not true, on average.
There has never been so women in slavery, so many women as virtual slaves (in countries where wives are essentially house slaves), so many women with so little real representation or respect, so many women in poverty with no recourse to get out of it.
I can forgive a small mistake here and there, but for the opening line to be one that perpetuates this strange myth that women were always treated badly in all societies throughout all time until the last century - for the opening line to perpetuates the myth that the natural and traditional place of woman is at the feet or even under the show of men - is not acceptable.
That is a dangerous myth. Traditionally and naturally, societies are egalitarian, with women and men having equal standing. Things just get worse and worse for women on the whole.
There has never been so women in slavery, so many women as virtual slaves (in countries where wives are essentially house slaves), so many women with so little real representation or respect, so many women in poverty with no recourse to get out of it.
I can forgive a small mistake here and there, but for the opening line to be one that perpetuates this strange myth that women were always treated badly in all societies throughout all time until the last century - for the opening line to perpetuates the myth that the natural and traditional place of woman is at the feet or even under the show of men - is not acceptable.
That is a dangerous myth. Traditionally and naturally, societies are egalitarian, with women and men having equal standing. Things just get worse and worse for women on the whole.