The thing is, even if it were used exclusively to shut women up, it would have been for egregiously bad, anti-social or even criminal behaviour; not just when the odd housewife got a bit uppity.
It's the odd notion that no woman could ever do anything to earn corporal punishment or torture. Something like this wouldn't be 1/10000th of what someone like Ghislaine Maxwell deserves, but there will always be a feminist to argue "muh hooman ryts! for even the most monstrous women.
The thing is, even if it were used exclusively to shut women up, it would have been for egregiously bad, anti-social or even criminal behaviour; not just when the odd housewife got a bit uppity.
It's the odd notion that no woman could ever do anything to earn corporal punishment or torture. Something like this wouldn't be 1/10000th of what someone like Ghislaine Maxwell deserves, but there will always be a feminist to argue "muh hooman ryts! for even the most monstrous women.