Patrician wrote:
Is a housewife a prostitute? Discuss
Okay!
One of the early platforms of certain radical feminists was that marriage was prostitution. Marriage was slavery, marriage was rape.
I took a Womens' Studies class in my misspent college years, and during one discussion I naively asked if radicals, not just feminists but any radicals at the start of any revolution, didn't do their cause more harm than good by taking such, to me, extreme ideological stances.
Oh, dear, that was not a popular opinion.
On the other side of the feminist movement were older, probably more conservative (relatively speaking) and not coincidentally married women arguing, "Let's pick the fights we can win, how 'bout it?" and getting grief for it.
So, yeah. It's been discussed at some length, trust me.