Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

[@alsokai]

Same classroom, same annoying cord hanging in the middle of the screen, but new and improved delivery! So glad this was uploaded! (Also, how awesome in Wollstonecraft!!)

[@jonahtwhale1779]

How was she awesome? She published some pamphlets, books and travelled a bit. Hardly earth shattering accomplishments - thousands of men had done this and more by the time she did. Her Thesis was that women should have the same rights as men. So that is explicitly copying the rights that men have claimed. Her justification was that women should have them too. Take education as one of her points - men should provide the same education to girls they do to boys. This is just parasitism. There was no expectstion that women should provide education to girls. Also her case for equality falls down at the first step. Men have to provide rights to themselves and then to women. Women do not have to provide anything to men. How is that equal? Also she was only able to do what she did because men assisted her and men funded her lifestyle, provided the technologies for to create and publish her writings. If she had had to find and use a female publisher, using printing presses designed and built by women and had her pamphlets distributed by female owned and run companies - we would never have heard of her! This suggests women's accomplishments are only equal if they use opportunities provided by men. When will women provide equal opportunities to men to achieve?

[@pidgellaboi5353]

i'm here writing an essay

[@ilovesesshomarusama716]

Ha first commenter here! Hiii, was referred to you by my mother in law. She took your class...

[@alsokai]

Also, horrid that Wollstonecraft dies of septicemia when her essay argues that women should have a right to demand "new-fangled notions of ease and cleanliness" in regards to infants!

[@jonahtwhale1779]

The need of person A does not imply a duty on person B to provide that need. Obviously the men of that time had not figured out the solutions to women's reproductive needs. You would have thought women would be better motivated to provide that.

[@snapgamer5461]

👌👏🏻

[@jonahtwhale1779]

His radical biases are very obvious!