Oon of us two moste bowen, doutelees,
And sith a man is moore resonable
Than womman is, ye moste been suffrable.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. Always trying to get the upper hand, the Wife of Bath told her first three husbands that in an argument one of them must give in, and since a man was more reasonable than a woman, then the man must give way.