No, that makes sense. If you slap a label like "women's rights" over things that purport to further women's causes but in its turn it has to dismantle the only system they know in which women CAN get power, then I can understand the apprehension. It was a man's world and it was hard enough for a woman to make it, and if we dismantle this world then it's going to be twice as hard for the women as for the men to climb up, because it was always twice as hard for the women. It seems like de Stael was just trying to protect women, or at least women of certain means, even if her attempts were misguided.
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Date: 2009-10-29 05:55 pm (UTC)What was her beef with Rousseau? What did he do?