Regarding the entry on hypoagency, while it’s not entirely true to say that women and girls could do as they pleased, it’s very true to say that women were not held accountable for their crimes against men or children (or even against other women). Nor were they held accountable for their debts.

So why could women and girls not do as they pleased? It sounds like the ultimate privileged life. Well, the flipside of women’s historic lack of accountability is that they could not receive loans, sign business contracts or trade property. This is the other half of hypoagency — the only half feminists have paid any attention to to date.

It is important to look at the entire picture — to remember that there were strict mores regarding prudence, chastity and fidelity for women. Those women who did not comply were locked out of marriage and shunned by all but the seedier side of society. This was of no small consequence, as few women were able to independently support themselves financially (let alone support a family), and that was just for basic survival. This may have been a wholly inadequate means of holding women and girls accountable for their action — in fact I’d argue that it was — but it had a profound effect on the behaviour of most women.

Women today are very accustomed to equal wages, unfettered access to education and employment and, of course, to welfare, no-fault divorce and forcibly extracted child support, etc. Most women now have every opportunity to support themselves fully and independently, but many still don’t or won’t. This is because of feminists’ refusal to look at the other half of hypoagency. Accountability.

While accountability for men has increased under feminism, accountability for women has decreased. Women can now forcibly extract commitment from a man by conceiving his child (with or without his consent). She can then compel him to labour for her benefit without reciprocating in any way whatsoever. She can even steal from him and he has no recourse to justice at all.

Perhaps most tragically of all, she can physically abuse him and their children for year after year, and he is powerless to stop her, or even to flee to safety with the children, owing to our broken system of feminist-inspired family laws.