From 9e9ab6cfa8e39d311968354da9345a6839c6ab0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jet Hughes Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:23:22 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2022-06-10 19:23:22 --- content/notes/mary-woolstonecraft.md | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/notes/mary-woolstonecraft.md b/content/notes/mary-woolstonecraft.md index ffa4b6322..5bfa21e4a 100644 --- a/content/notes/mary-woolstonecraft.md +++ b/content/notes/mary-woolstonecraft.md @@ -15,8 +15,14 @@ At the time of her birth women were had almost slaves. Even the most progressive > "the whole education of women ought ot be relative to men, to please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honoured by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them, these are the duties of women at all times, and should be taught to them from their infancy" -This sounds a lot like slavery. Women are percieved as mentally and physically inferior to men. It was this kind of thinking that Woolstonecraft was trying to abolish. She said: +This sounds a lot like slavery. Women are percieved as mentally and physically inferior to men. It was this kind of thinking that Woolstonecraft was trying to abolish. She said: > "strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience, but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endevour to keep women in the dark, because the former only wants slaves and the latter a plaything" -Here she is saying the system that oppresses women is like a tyrant. She was the first to consider the idea the equality should be for *both* men and women (wow), thus starting the pursuit of true eqaulity. +Here she is saying the system that oppresses women is like a tyrant. She was the first to consider the idea that equality should be for both men *and* women (wow), thus starting the pursuit of true equality. + +The current cultural conventions are constantly changing. These changes usually occur is bursts as revolutions. Some progressive thinker points out a glaring injustice, then change occurs. + +Woolstonecraft dared to question the cultural conventions of her time. This leads to the questions: What social conventtions exists today, that we aren't questioning? Who is the tyrant now? How are we being conditioned? It is inevitable that future generations will look back at us as barbarians, in the same way we view earlier generations. + +Acknowlegding how arbitrary our current norms are is freeing. \ No newline at end of file