@Angel1313 @DMA @JeffTheJoker @Bunsen @EvilSandmich @InvictusManeo @NoDoxGregBrady I know all the things you have mentioned as issues for women - I however know that I am an outsider looking in. I will never truly know what it is like to feel those same pressures.

Women in western european countries have never been second class citizens. This is a modern disease looking back and saying "because women weren't allowed to be a king, they were second class citizens" - but that's just not true. Society was not looked at in such an atomized inhumane way. People having a station in life was not seen as a reflection on them. The peasant was not angry at the lord for being a lord - but in fact in some cases would actually feel sorry, because they had obligations to many more people.