George Fitzhugh On Women In The 1930's

"Women, like children, have but one right," Fitzhugh argues therein, "and that is the right to protection. The right to protection involves the obligation to obey." This seems to be a continuing norm. Women have always been looked at as the weaker sex, and should only do housework, and care for the children and the husband. The husband will do the hard work and supply for the family. And that's that. But in today's culture that norm is causing major problems, because women want equal rights, they don't want to stay home day after day, they want to be able to have the same jobs and get paid the same as men, they don't want to obey. So what is the difference now compared to George Fitzhugh's view in 1854. Let's delve a little deeper into the past and the present.
Like Fitzhughs excerpt states, women in the south were respected and protected as long as they obeyed their master, also know as their husband. They were essentially slaves to men, but the men didn't see it that way. They thought it was okay because women were weak and unable to do the things a man could do. Fitzhugh says, “so long as she is nervous, fickle, capricious, delicate, diffident and dependent, man will worship and adore her”. He is saying that a woman has no rights and is owned by man and if she obey then he worships her, but by that he means he won't beat her or kill her. A women who would stand up and try fighting for her rights would get abused and the law was unable to stand beside her and give any help. “The generous sentiments of slaveholders are sufficient guarantee of the rights of woman, all the world over,” without these men to “protect” their women, who must obey or else will lose protection, women might actually gain rights. So what happened when they gained the right to