Wollstonecraft: Vindication (II)

In this one, she takes on the idea that there are Man Virtues and Woman Virtues, and girls should be educated for Woman Virtues, which Wollstonecraft rightly dismisses as—look, what is suddenly being considered strictly male virtue is human virtue, it's constantly framed as human virtue, if somehow those things aren't for women then you're essentially saying women are subhuman.

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Okay, this was happy making

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch 3

I will go further, and affirm, as an indisputable fact, that most of the women, in the circle of my observation, who have acted like rational creatures, or shewn any vigour of intellect, have accidentally been allowed to run wild—as some of the elegant formers of the fair sex would insinuate.

hm

Pride and Prejudice, Ch 9:

“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”

Pride and Prejudice, Ch 19

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

hmmm