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In the Victorian era, women were forced by men to adhere to submissive, weak and emotional roles as a way for males to maintain ultimate control and status.

A critical look at any era of Western Civilization will show that it has been impossible for men as a group to force women as a group to do anything unless a Koran-like code of conduct is in place, backed up by magistrates with beheading swords at the ready. This certainly wasn't the case in Victorian England.

It is much more logical to assume that women chose and accepted Victorian-era roles as a means of maintaining their own power and status within society - allowing men to appear to have the public control while women essentially ran society from behind the scenes. Older women taught younger women how to play the game, and a rough balance of power came about - to the extent a balance was possible in an era with no birth control and minimal medical knowledge.

Feminists threw away all of that to grasp at what men had: the illusion of control and "dominance", as young Julie calls it approvingly. They are only just starting to realize what they gave up by doing so.