The Bible Does not degrade women

1 Peter 3:7

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers."
Now this topic was something hard for me to do because I didn't have the proper scripture but glory be to God he hooked me up. I always hear all this mumbo jumbo about "the bible is flawed because it degrades women". Actually the bible never degraded women. When Paul refers to females as the "weaker vessel" he's mentioning the fact that it was the woman that fell to the snake(satan) and not the man(1 timothy 2:14) but at the same time he calls her a partner. Alot of people whom I've come across discussions with have mentioned "well in the earlier days woman were always mistreated and abused, raped, etc." but honestly you have to come down to the conclusion and realize that alot of those bad things happened due to the sinful nature that resides in mankind. It's like saying I'm a christian and all and the bible tells me not to kill but I just went ahead and killed someone for making me angry. The blame shouldn't fall on the word of God, if anything God says that 1.Numbers 23:19 "I'm not like man whom I should lie" and 2. Psalm 119:89 " God's word remains eternal". At the end of the day his word remains the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Now as we proceed on with the verse we notice it says "treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as HEIRS WITH YOU of the gracious gift of life". We look at Galatians 3:28 and it mentions that heavens for anyone whom is in Christ. At the same time though we need to respect the fact that God calls men to be the head, the authoritative role Ephesians 5:23 so men have more responsibility on their hands Ephesians 5:25. It's like comparing it to our government, our government is based on a democracy mostly focusing on us the people, but at the end of the day the president, or the house of reps.,etc. are the authoritative figures. Also Men are to love their wives as the weaker vessel because (emotionally speaking) women are the "weaker vessel", and are to be treated with understanding and respect. For pete sakes they use more emotion than a man therefore it's a mans duty to shower her with this loving care.