https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0 Mapping Arguments for Women to Be Treated as Rational Humans en-us 2019-03-19 14:52:36 UTC 2019-03-24 20:40:27 UTC hello@padlet.com jennifer_west6 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/342896900 “One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men, who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect.”

Translation: Women have been taught by books written by men to be "alluring," rather than to develop their character in order to earn respect, and it shows in how they act.]]> 2019-03-19 14:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/342896900 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343005372 "Bodily strength from being the distinction of heroes is now sunk into such unmerited contempt, that men as well as women, seem to think it unnecessary: the latter, as it takes from their feminine graces, and from that lovely weakness, the source of their undue power; and the former, because it appears inimical with the character of a gentleman."

Translation:
The only way men can be considered superior is by bodily strength, which is irrelevant in an age of reason and enlightenment. Also, isn't being delicate boasted about as a woman? As stated here: " I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more than commonly proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a distinguishing taste and puny appetite the height of all human perfection, and acted accordingly. "]]> 2019-03-19 17:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343005372 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343008968 “women are not allowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves the name of virtue. ”

translation 
Women are not allowed to use their minds. They are not given the freedom to be placed in circumstances where their true virtue could be displayed. ]]> 2019-03-19 17:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343008968 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343009130 "I once knew a young person who learned to write before she learned to read, and began to write with her needle before she could use a pen."

Translation:
Women are not educated well, but taught how to do domestic chores and tasks first. What use is this?]]> 2019-03-19 17:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343009130 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343011779  The child is not left a moment to its own direction, particularly a girl, and thus rendered dependent—dependence is called natural. 

Translation:
When talking about the animal kingdom, she notes that it is not "natural" for any animal to be coddled. Coddled=dependent-->so stop coddling your daughters 
Teach them independence because that is truly natural ]]> 2019-03-19 18:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343011779 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012192 "With respect to religion, she never presumed to judge for herself; but conformed, as a dependent creature should, to the ceremonies of the church which she was brought up in."

Translation:
Women were not allowed to select a religion for themselves, but were taught to follow that of their upbringing or their husband. Wollstonecraft argues women should be able to choose their religion]]> 2019-03-19 18:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012192 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012660 “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience”

Women should be allowed to receive education to enlarge their perspective and mind in order to strengthen their femininity. This growth will put an end to the blind obedience under man power]]> 2019-03-19 18:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012660 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012978 "So I dismiss those pretty feminine phrases that the men
condescendingly use to make our slavish dependence easier
for us, and I despise the weak elegance of mind, exquisite
sensibility, and sweet docility of manners that are supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker sex. I want to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the most praiseworthy ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, whether male or female, and that lesser
ambitions should be tested against that one."

Translation:
Gentleness/femininity is used by men to weaken women, when strengthening the mind and virtue should be the goal of both men and women.]]> 2019-03-19 18:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343012978 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343015901 “Let the honest heart show itself, and REASON teach passion to submit to necessity...I do not mean to allude to the romantic passion, which is the concomitant of genius. Who can clip its wings? But that grand passion not proportioned to the puny enjoyments of life, is only true to the sentiment, and feeds on itself.”
 translation:
It is important that one puts the connection between the mind of two individuals over the physical passions of their relationship. ]]> 2019-03-19 18:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343015901 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343016767 "So much wretchedness has flowed from hereditary honours, riches, and monarchy, that men of lively sensibility
have been reduced almost to blasphemy in their attempts
to justify God’s management of the world."

Men have used their power as a justification to manage social hierarchy - not virtuous and independent from God. ]]> 2019-03-19 18:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343016767 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343016842  Perhaps, if the existence of an evil being was allowed, who, in the allegorical language of scripture, went about seeking whom he should devour, he could not more effectually degrade the human character than by giving a man absolute power. 

Translation:
The way men are manipulating scripture is the devil's greatest hold/influence over human kind]]> 2019-03-19 18:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343016842 https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343019500 "if Rousseau had climbed one step higher in his investigation—or if his eye could have pierced the foggy atmosphere that he was hardly willing to breathe—his active mind would have darted forward to contemplate •the perfection of man in the establishment of true civilization, instead of taking his ferocious flight back to •the night of sensual ignorance."

If man used his power for virtue and enlightenment instead of sensual ignorance, society would be much further along and less of a tyranny.]]> 2019-03-19 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_west6/suphmjmd01i0/wish/343019500