Week 4 post

After reading the article I found one small paragraph to almost be… degrading to women: “He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.” This is full on saying that women are property and that they basically mean nothing without a husband. The husband being able to control apparently all aspects of life if this document gives him the permission to be the “master” which now full on contradicts the previous statements and puts contest to Adams post where all men and women are created equal. This one powerful and I think morally wrong paragraph in plane words states that men are created more equal and women amount to nothing more than property to be owned by their husband and to be used in the way he see fit. I think there were equally powerful messages and quotes to be found but this stuck out to me the most and I felt I needed to bring it up to debate the supposed all men created equal with rights liberty and the pursuit to happiness. I think this goes to show back in the day when this was written the men were sexist and all for white male supremacy.