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I am pretty sure most of times this rules only applied to rich woman.

Men are buying little girls and marrying them. It's called "child brides" and it is slavery. So is prostitution.

You're supposed to be a historian blog and you're not aware that women were and are sold as property. What have you been doing?

To give just one example, in England, prior to the Married Women's Property Act of 1870, any income which a woman earned legally belonged to her husband. In fact a married woman, rich or poor, did not even exist as a separate legal entity.

Caroline Norton, who was instrumental in gerting this Act passed, also campaigned successfully for divorce reform. The following is an excerpt from her testimony to Parliament.

And while English women did gain some property rights in the 1870s, it wasn't until 100 years later that the Sex Discrimination Act actually made it illegal for banks to refuse to let a woman open an account without a man's signature.

Of course, this doesn't even touch on all of the unpaid work which women in nearly every time and place have been expected to do for their husbands. Including providing him with children.

People keep talking about this Epstein stuff like it's a meme or a joke, and it just downplays the war on women and girls. That foundational way they are assaulted specifically for their sex.

'i dont want to get deployed to iran b/c i will be a liability in a place full of pretty caramel colored women'

Mahmudiyah Killings and rape, Iraq (2004): 5 American soldiers targeted and killed an Iraqi family by raping a 14 year old girl named Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi then killed her, her parents, and her 6 year old sister.

No Gun Ri massacre, Korea (1950): American soldiers murdered 400 South Korean refugees many who were women and children civilians.

Haditha massacre, Iraq (2005): a massacre of 24 Iraqi citizens including women and children by American military.