age of romance

Have you ever wondered, during your grandparents' time was there romance? To put it simpler, did your grannies have romance?

I myself don't really believe there was any. If we look at the kind of society it was back then, the family was the basic unit for procreation. Procreation was a way to increase the economic workforce for the family. During such harsh time did they really have the luxury to think of romance? I don't think so~ Somemore the culture back then was very much male chauvinistic, so the social/domestic status of females was far from being equal to males. In Chinese there is a saying, 嫁鸡随鸡, 嫁狗随狗, which means if you are married to a chicken, then you follow the chicken; if you are married to a dog, then you follow the dog. There is also another saying 夫唱妇随, which means the husband sings this tune, the wife also must sing the same tune.

I really respect women of that time. Polygyny was common, how did they stand it? They could really keep quiet about their husband marrying another woman? Ermm.. were the males really that greedy? Why? One is not enough? But what's the use of having more than one wife when at the end of the day you would still ignore them.

I feel glad for women of today.