If we look back and read their writings in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, we find that they said they were privileged. Some feminists argue that they could not have bank accounts, but never explain that this was because legally women could not be responsible forining the family. Women could not accumulate debts in that way. What would it mean for a woman to have property if she could not make those lands produce something or defend them from those who wanted to take them away? There were practical reasons for these circumstances. Why would we want to charge women to defend people and property? If you had voting rights, that could generate frustration in critical situations, such as when police help is needed and a female official is sent. If, for example, there is a devastating hurricane that affects women’s response and emergen