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I am not sure if I had trouble truly understanding them, or maybe it's that they just didn't sink in, but I felt as if the passages were very repetitive. Don't get me wrong, Wollstonecraft had very good content and strong points, but I felt as if she restated everything from different perspectives throughout these first four chapters. Its almost as if she didn't add any new or fresh input after the first one or two chapters. Now, this may be a lack of understanding on my part, or maybe I just wasn't intrigued enough to gain a more comprehensive grasp of the subject, but I just felt as as if Wollstonecraft was  beating a horse she had already killed. However, this does not discredit the fact that she has made some very nice points in her righting. In that time, women were raised to feel, act, and think inferior to men, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't be on the same playing field in these areas. I did appreciate that she did not blame the condition of women at the time completely on the men, and by that I mean she did place some responsibility in the complacency of women at the time. Did anyone else have these kind of thoughts or ideas about the subject?

P.S. I commented on Gray's and Anna Kate's posts.

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Eliza Colbert said…
I did think it was a little repetitive. She would start on a point, get side-tracked, and then go right back where she started. Still, she had a lot to say. I appreciate that, unlike more modern feminists, Wollstonecraft acknowledges that this is a societal problem. Men don't deserve all of the blame and neither do women.
October 21, 2019 at 12:52 PM
Stephen Davis said…
I agree with you that her passages were very repetitive but the points that she does make were very informative and certainly impactful at the time. I do not think that you were mistaken in this because it seemed to me that she never stopped when she had clearly said what she needed to which led to the whole thing feeling really drawn out.
October 21, 2019 at 2:39 PM
Addison Zanda said…
I think the repetitive role in the book is vital to the point of her ideas trying to get through our heads and I like that. Men and women were kinda born into set roles in society and that sucks for the point of them being "delicate" to men. Though that shouldn't be the idea, men and women should both have strength roles when providing for one.
October 21, 2019 at 2:45 PM
Hailey Morgan said…
I also felt as though Wollstonecraft was repetitive, but she might have been using this tactic to insure her message stuck.

In an era when women practically had zero rights, I feel as though Wollstonecraft's repetition was just her form of determination and her zeal for change. By constantly bringing up the same topics over and over again, she was pounding her information into the heads of her readers, insuring her words would not be forgotten.
October 21, 2019 at 3:02 PM
Rachael Gregson said…
Yes indeed, I have to say Wollstonecraft liked to chase her rabbits. But I did like her perspective on the matter. This kind of feminism is such a breath of fresh air compared to the feminism we have now. There's no finger pointing in her writing, only the urgency to be understood, and she clearly owned up to the fact that both sides were at fault. A very mature spokeswoman! We sure need her in today's time.
October 21, 2019 at 7:55 PM
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