Fact is, there is more violence against women in the present day than there was in 1918, before women could vote.
In your mind, my saying that means that I think women were better off when they couldn't vote.
And let's still work at keeping this real. The pledge in no way said that blacks had it better under slavery. It said in effect that it is a sad thing that black children are more likely to be reared with a single parent now than was likely for a slave child. You might argue with the statistic. But no way that is a racist statement or an endorsement of slavery.
And all cultures are not equal. There is no way to say that a culture with a despotic tyrannical dictatorship in which citizens are routinely savaged, murdered, and terrorized is equal with an America, Canada, U.K., or pick your developed country of choice. There is no way to say that the culture of an inner city ghetto community in which most children live in poverty and never graduate highschool if they survive at all is equal to the culture of Mission Hills Kansas or Long Island or Fort Lauderdale or San Francisco. Nor does acknowledging that have anything to do with race.
And you're right that women were more protected in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries than they are now. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of suffrage and is not changed by the fact that women could not once vote.
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