Mary Wollstonecraft Differences Between Men And Women

Mary Wollstonecraft was brave for her time period. She was one of the first women to write about feminism and her views. Her essay not only made a point during her time period, but it still is the basis of all feminism today by proving that women are able to take a stand. The essay showed the differences between men and women, the multiple discriminations against women, and the way to find justice. Feminism is something that has merely been looked over in the past decade. Our society has been struggling with gay rights that have stolen all the spotlight. The world has forgotten about the wrongdoings that men have done to women, whether it be in the home, in the workforce, or in everyday life. This essay is history that every woman should know and still try to end the fight. The reader can feel how strongly Wollstonecraft feels about her topic by her …show more content…
Women are fearful of what they would do if they became masculine. Women are not given enough credit and are consistently not achieving their full potential. Their “artificial weakness produces a propensity to tyrannize”(Wollstonecraft Page 7). Some females are nervous about facing the men and achieving justice. One example of that would be Jennifer Lawrence. When wages for one of her movies were leaked and she realized that she was making significantly less than the other males, she was not aggravated. She did not “want to seem "difficult" or "spoiled"” (Jennifer Lawrence). She then went to question, “Are we socially conditioned to behave this way?”. That is an interesting thought. Females in the 1800s would have never imagined that women would be able to vote or have a sufficient job. So could women have been bred into believing that they must fall into line as a woman and not be able to accomplish the same things as a man? In the same context, is it fair to say that men were bred to believe that they were suppose to be higher than