Its not that men of the past kept their women in line but rather SOCIETY AS A WHOLE KEPT WOMEN IN LINE.
How the society of the past did this was by simply expecting a certain behavior of it's mothers and its young girls and rewarding said behavior.
Modern women are really and truly fundamentally no different mentally than women of the past ie they are just fulfilling their biological imperative to get the needed praise and or attention that they inherintely desire.
Well past society had a way of rewarding them only for behaviors that would uplift the society as a whole and it was behavior that kept everything running smoothly for generations to come which is to say it was behavior conducive to creating lasting fulfilled families that would go on to have generations of grandchildren who would repeat the good lessons of the past and see the same good things happen in their own lives and that of their own grandchildren and their children's generation, etc, etc.
It was never religious bullshit of any type or flavor that kept society together and running smoothly and functioning well on a pair bonding male/female level as the tradcucks so want to believe and want others to believe, but rather once again and I cannot restate this enough:
It was precisely and only what society demanded of women in order for women to get the attention/pats on the head/approval that they inherintely seem to crave in the "natural order of things" as a biological human female organism on this planet.
Modern Jew fucked and cucked society rewards them for being pigs and sluts and mean spirited mutts, so why wouldn't they act cruelly towards men and even worse to men like us? After all thats what society these days rewards them for doing and modern men being so cucked and cowed by the anti man feminist Jew laws never seem to do anything about it to stop it so you almost couldn't blame modern women for thinking men actually enjoy this behavior.
THAT is how crazy our world ie Clown World is and has become.
I digress...
Continuing my point...
That said while in the past society demanded women be sweet, demure and kind as it's "carrot and stick" motivating factor requirement for women's much needed approval and self esteem boosting praise to be lavished upon them.
So naturally women became what their society of the time wanted to see out of them in order to get what they wanted the most which was societal approval and praise.
Its not rocket science guys but I understand it is quite hard to fathom and get past one's mental blocks and biases in recognizing that women aren't actually the real problem at all.
The real "problem" is the (((people))) who are presently ruling our society and their malicious intent and that problem is known as Jews and as long as they rule, women will continue to be mean spirited, callous and cruel, which is to say un-lady-like because and I'll quote a Jew himself because he says it better about his "people" than even I can and it is this...
“We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.”
— Maurice Samuel
The destruction of women leads to the ruination of the family, creates misery, creates street gangs, creates disenfranchised men, creates bitter women and ultimately ends up destroying a society which we are seeing the end product of now.
Its also probably the reason for almost all the mass shooters that have ever been.
An old nigger proverb puts it aptly:
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb
So while it can be fun to hate on women (and I'm guilty of it myself here on our own forum and elsewhere on the net) when it comes right down to it, doing so ON ANY SERIOUS LEVEL is simply missing the point.
The real enemy is and always has been the Jew.
Women are fundamentally amoral at their core.
That is to say neither truly bad or truly good ie they simply are what they are.
Put them under the rule of a society that favors men and we get a harmonious near utopian paradise for ourselves of intimacy, love/romance and familial fulfillment.
Put them in Clown World however and we get despicable man hating sluts like Miley Cyrus and depraved piggish negresses like Cardi B and Nicki Minaj.
Edit: Also forgot to add so I'll do it now...
The reason women "act up" these days (even in relationships with Chad) is because on some deep level they realize this society is all wrong (even if its only a subconscious realization) and so the acting up is a kind of "shit test" challenge to their man and its not so much the woman wanting to be "put in her place" as it is a very real and legitimate test of her man to see if he possesses "a pair of balls" which to put it another more blunt and plain way is her asking "Does he have any courage at all?"
Its as though her instincts are literally crying out to her man to overturn this sick society and restore order and the natural balance but outwardly her and her man (if redpilled with PUA literature or natural Chad instincts) only views it (half mistakenly so) as a common female shit test when its actually much more than simply that.