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@ -19,4 +19,10 @@ This sounds a lot like slavery. Women are percieved as mentally and physically
> "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" > "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.