content: "Men controlled and treated women as children for thousands of years for a reason. It's too risky to give them full autonomy and expect them to make use of free will, control their instincts; not when survival of our species depends on it."  while men and women are not equal, i do not think this warrents not trying to motivate women to be better. putting pressure on them to be more virtuous is not the same thing as giving them full autonomy. i for example, believe that women were given the right to vote too early, and that they should have had better standards expected of them regarding education and property ownership before doing so.  "I agree that this mindset is harmful, some behaviours are inevitable, but it's lazy and defeatist not to make an effort to be virtuous. We should hold women and men to a certain standard, but it should be something timeless and specific to their sex."  i think it should be specific to their sex, but specific to an expectation of one day elevating them beyond the current limitations of their sex, further more, i do not think it should be timeless, but timely, as their capabilities already have changed over time, and will (and should) continue to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace its shit like this that gives me hope and motivates me to want to expect more out of women, i get that people like ada or ayn rand are not the norm, but it shows that this is possible for women, and should be something that we prop up as role models for them, not fucking kim kardashian.