Men throughout history were much more dangerous to women than thought.

[shraby]

I put genealogical history on the internet and something that's always been missed are the numbers of women who burned to death when doing household chores.
Due to the "buttoned from the waist to the neck" and long, floor length dresses, they were prone to catching on fire when making soap outdoors, or heating water for washing on open fires.

The dress would catch fire and all the buttons made it almost impossible to shed the garment before the woman was burned horribly or burned to death. Even a burning shoe was almost impossible to take off as they were tall and buttoned also.

This was the standard dress for them dictated by men's insistence on "decorum and modesty."
It took until the 1920s for the women to shake off the standard and dress in much more sensible clothing.

[guillaumeb]

1. Plastic based fabrics are also dangerous.

Polyester and the various oil-based synthetics.

[shraby]

3. American women don't have to work with open fires today like they did

in the pre 1920 days. Many died by horrid burns. I have put many obituaries on testifying to that, and that's only for the county I cover.

[Squinch]

2. Second greatest cause of death to colonial women after childbirth.

[shraby]

4. Many people don't realize it. The three main causes of death for colonial women

were childbirth, consumption (T.B.) and burns.

[Squinch]

5. And I can't even get my head around what a horrible way that would be to die.

[TheFrenchRazor]

6. i expect men to force stuff like that; what sucks is when women don't even put up a fight. the

reality is that throughout all of human history, the majority of women have (at least initially) opposed every single sensible, just reform in women's rights and position in society (including things like dress reform). the few early women's rights advocates who tried the "bloomer costume" had to give it up due to the ridicule, from both men and women.

[ismnotwasm]

9. "don't even put up a fight"

That's one of the many detrimental effects you get while indoctrinated in a "normalized" patriarchy.

[mercuryblues]

7. The same holds

true for flooding. Historically more women died in floods than men. Running away from rising waters is difficult and slow in long dresses. Even if they knew how to swim, the long dresses weighed them down restricting movement.


It is estimated that somewhere between 66-77% of those killed in the 2004 tsunami were women.

[Skittles]

8. Oscar Wilde's sisters

http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/gaels/stories/wilde.htm