Sounds like a compliment.. but it wasn’t. Cato the Elder said this in 195 BCE, during a heated debate in the Roman Senate. At the time, women were protesting to repeal the Lex Oppia (a wartime law that banned them from wearing gold, riding in carriages, or showing wealth). The protests grew so large that the Senate had to decide either keep the restrictions or give women back their freedom. Cato stood firmly against repeal. He warned the Senate that if men treated women as equals, women would ri

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