Journal Entry #2

I think such restrictions were put on women because society viewed them more as animals that men owned. People didn't view them as men's equals and if a woman disobeyed the man in charge of her she was punished. The way they were treated reminds me of how people treat pets now days. For example, if your dog disobeys you yell at it, you also view your pet as your possession and if you tell your dog to sit and it doesn't your dog gets in trouble. This is the same way men viewed women back then, women were men's possessions to train to do whatever they wanted just like you would train your dog. I think that most of the men in society back then didn't even realize they way they treated women could be wrong. I think that they just never even contemplated the fact women could feel and be anywhere close to their equals. It would be like contemplating animals were just like us and thought, felt, and were as intelligent as us. We feel this way about animals because there not human, they're an entirely different species. Well I think that this is the same as what men thought of women back then, yes they were human, but they weren't a man which to them was like being an entirely different species. I feel that most of the people back then couldn't even get there minds around or grasp the concept that women could be there equals. It was just too out of the ordinary, if mentioned they probably would have laughed at thought not to be mean, but because it just wasn't considered possible if it was even considered at all. I do think that maybe more educated men might have thought differently and just treated women the way they did because they were supposed to and they enjoyed being a tyrant. As for the majority of the men I don't think they realized they were being tyrants or just plain mean.