If Genesis is BS, what DID happen?

[Rokcet Scientist]

Tradition and cultural indoctrination are powerful. It's not beyond possibility that a woman would vote in oppressive measures counter to her own interests. We actually have quite the history of doing just that, men and women both.

Of course. But eventually that is solved too. Societies need to learn how to handle democracy and freedom of choice if they are not used to it. That takes time. Example: in my 'democratic' country women got the vote almost a century after men did. I'll bet it wasn't much different in your 'democratic' country.
However, I concede that some countries – even those that consider themselves democracy standard bearers – take an awful lot of time to learn. One wonders sometime if they ever will.

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It’s bullshit. It’s also one reason we have courts in the US. Part of their job is to protect the minority from the will of the majority.

Which demonstrates the US' democracy's immaturity: protecting minorities from majorities is a political thing, not a legal thing. So it's the political system that should deal with that. Not the legal system.