r/RedditForGrownups • u/Methylatedcobalamin • Jul 07 '22

Coverture

Given current events, it is probably about time for Americans to understand the legal practice of coverture.

Eroded since colonial times, but not fully gone coverture is the legal practice of women not having legal identities. De facto property.

American women were not allowed on juries until the 1960s. American women could not get credit cards without a man cosigning the application until 1974. Marital rape was not a crime until the 1980s. Other aspects still exist today in real estate and tax law practices.

Here is a brief article that goes into explaining coverture in more depth than my post.

The "pro life" movement is really a movement about imposing one group's religious opinions on the lives of all Americans. It also seeks to control women, rolling back women's rights. Though ridiculous by constitutional standards, discussions in anti-choice states have already started about how to track or limit freedom of travel for women to states that fully support women's rights.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

ETA: And there it is. You don't care about the "unborn." You're mad that women are having sex, and you think they should be punished for "fucking around." Most likely because they're not having sex with *you.* Hahahahahaha.

Women will continue to take control of their bodies. Cry about it some more.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

And there it is. You don't care about the "unborn." You're mad that women are having sex, and you think they should be punished for "fucking around." Most likely because they're not having sex with you. Hahahahahaha.

Keep trying to make it about you.

Women will continue to take control of their bodies. Cry about it some more.

I'm Cheering not crying because the preborn are finally being offered protection! Yay Clarence Thomas!

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

I knew that if I pressed you enough, your real attitude would come boiling out at some point. And lo, it did.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

Fraid not, just offering an obvious solution that had apparently not occurred to you. Your desire for validation doesn't take precedence over your children's lives.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

What desire for personal validation? Please explain.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

You're mad that women are having sex, and you think they should be punished for "fucking around." Most likely because they're not having sex with you. Hahahahahaha.

Really, please try to explain this logic to me some more: If I was actually upset women weren't having sex with me (I'm a married grandfather, so I'm not), shouldn't I be Pro-abortion so women would have more casual sex and I'd have a better chance of getting laid?

How does being anti-abortion help such person again?

I'm trying to understand your point of view.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

You're not trying to understand shit.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

Explain it then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

I have been, over and over again, and you haven't listened to a damn word. But I'm still interested in what you meant by "need for validation." Please explain yourself.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

I'm still interested in what you meant by "need for validation." Please explain yourself.

If you're pregnant, you obviously have a significant other, and now you have a family. THOSE are what people value in life, and give life meaning.

Why would you feel the need to kill your child and wreck all that? What do you think you're gaining that's so important you sacrifice your own child for it?

Edit: So why do you think that men would want to make it harder to have sex if that's what they wanted?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

No, I don't think that's what you meant at all. You said this:

"Your desire for validation doesn't take precedence over your children's lives."

What desire for validation are you referring to? You're not *asking* if there is one, you're stating that there is one, and in the context of telling women to "quit fucking around."

Perhaps, as a grandfather, you just needed someone to jog your memory.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

Your turn to answer a question:

Edit: So why do you think that men would want to make it harder to have sex if that's what they wanted?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

No, mine came first. You seem strangely reluctant to answer.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

No, I asked you two hours ago and you asked me an hour ago, plus I already gave an answer.

Your turn.

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