Rousseau on Women

[SacClass]

This brings to mind a debate I had with my uncle, where I brought up a more provocative example of safeguarding women, one which is regarded as archaic, in the form of the Taliban. When women's virtue is reneged on, or violated, those in Afghanistan employ a particular practicality that we find abhorrent, but the _means_ _by_ _which_ it is done is of deep reverence toward the status of women. It is all the more relevant to think about given the state of the West. Where women are subjected to whatever an individual thinks or feels one to be.

What is worthy of more disdain, then: the ungrounding of women resulting in their humiliation, vilification, infantilization, endangerment and, ultimately, erasure; or the absolute grounding of their status as women and their virtue?

(YouTube limits one's ability to truly divulge the details given its censorship.)

[PaulThronson]

That's pretty convenient considering how much satisfaction one gets from having a full public life

[zenden]

Now, that is an excellent observation and distinction that i had not appreciated.

[ipercalisse]

We used to be
Like the Japanese.. stressing much more emphasis on virtue and honour. A woman was not prohibited to be public in many ways..

[ramodemmahom]

Where can read more about this topic? A reading list, perhaps? Thanks.

[Canario_]

Funny enough, medieval times where wiser in terms of the relationship between men and women.

The enlightment is tremendously overrated.

[DoReMIY]

Will love to see a dialog between you and Diego Fusaro, my wish:).Thank you for creating this channel.

[magmasunburst]

Thoughts on this?

“Men didn't oppress women, we just evolved in different ways, and developed different skill sets. Women had natural incapacity to do the things men were doing until recent times. And, with just rampant entitlement for women, and women liking to mostly hire other women, we are seeing a break down in many systems. Men had to go to war, develop technical systems of warfare, negotiate skillfully, and this built up a different skillset. It used to be that women were very gifted in social welfare issues, up until recent times, and you can see the fallout from that (homelessness, overdoses, etc.).


Women were queens five hundred years ago in many Western countries. They were also
heads of some monasteries.

[PaulaODowd]

The hebrews were not like that . Proverbs 31 “ let her works praise her in the gates”

[balderbrok]

If:
1. Humans are "political animals"
2. Politics is in essence a public affair
3. Virtous women refrain from exposing themselves publicly

Does it then not follow that virtous women are less human than other women?
I obviously do not agree with that conclusion, but am curious about which premise i should take an issue with if the logic here is valid.