Spare me that weakest of weak-ass shit. Your response to a quotation is all your responsibility.
There are like a hundred ways to go at this, the recency of the common man having any legal power among them. But my favorite is imagining love and compassion as modern inventions. "Oh, there were trans people, they were just covered up. Yeah, all the thousands of years of people going on and on about the love between husbands and wives was made up too, they just kinda slapped women around until the 20th century."
What on earth is it with you and the constant straw men?
Nobody's saying husbands were never kind, decent, loving (although of course, you did recently say that love wasn't the main point of marriage, but let's leave that aside for now). Sometimes they were, sometimes they were not.
But abusing people in large part comes down to opportunity and power. The more a system or institution facilitates abuse, the more abuse is likely to occur. The more a system makes it hard to prevent or escape abuse, the more abuse tends to occur.Serious domestic violence tends to be inflicted by men on women just because men tend to be more physically powerful. The status of women until relatively recently made abuse of women extraordinarily easy to do, hard to prevent, and hard for women to escape.
