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>>femfos+(OP)
I feel like history is going to look at this phenomenon as a strange curiosity, the same way we look at the Inquisition or the Salem Witch Trials today or even some of the communist revolutions.

People will say "It's pretty unbelievable that happened, because no sane individual would ever condone something so extreme."

>>asjldk+86
My own pet theory is that each age has a Great Insanity, almost like it's some kind of cosmic human constant. The particular insanity varies from generation to generation, but it still exists.

It might be witches in one generation, flying saucers, communists in another, Jews in another, or blacks; the possibilities are inexhaustible. We don't know what the next Insanity will be, only that there will be one.

I have a hunch that, roll on a hundred years, everything will turn full circle and we'll be back to segregation of the sexes. "Of course the whole thing was a folly," future generation will claim, "what absurd notion led them to the idea that men and women were the same anyway?"

Each generation has the conceit that it is more enlightened than the last, little realising that they are no smarter than the one before.