Well, the problem is history. In the begging and as society developed only men had rights. Women couldn't vote, divorce, even inherent estates, work, get an education. So effectively in your view women were given a special right to vote, a special right to permit them to work, a special right to allow them to divorce and a special right to allow them to equally inherit an estate otherwise given to the son or oldest son. Women were, in your view, also given special rights to have an education and eventually a right to become a judge. Women, in terms of religion, being a private organization, have not been given a special right to become a priest. In that sense you are correct or are wrong, depending how you wish to describe history. Well, if you go back in history far enough there was no such thing as marriage. Like animals, people just had love and produced offspring. As history evolved, men took wives and women become a possession. Eventually women fought for a special status that would remove them, women, from being a chattel and for equal status under a marriage contact. All rights are special. The right of a man in early unwritten history to take a wife as a possession was a special right. When men want love, it is a special right that women permit them to have love. They say yes and the men proceeds. So effectively men have no rights just like everybody else in society. Every right that exists in society is a special right as long as you go back in history before the right existed.
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