Blog 13 Mary Wollstonecraft

Pernicious Effects Which Arise From The Unnatural Distinctions Established In Society

What kind of wok are women fit for, in Wollstonecraft view?
Wollstonecraft reading was a little difficult, even though I can relate to some issues. First I kind of had to break down the title because how would I know what the story is about when I don’t understand the title. From my perspective the title meant to me that Bad Effects Which Arise From The Strange Discrimination Established In Society. that she discussed far as women’s rights, and women equality because it’s going on today. She felt that it was unnecessary to live with a man in order to be happy, I agree because women basically do more than men, because more women are beginning to find it out that they can be independent, and make as much money as a man. “There must be equality established in society”(748), she felt it was vain to except virtue from women till they are in some degree independent to men. In paragraph 7 she talks about issues that a woman who is nursing her children, keeping the house in order, and having a husband to do the same because rarely I see or hear a husband and wife who treat each other equally. There has always been a stereotype that women are suppose to be the stay at home wife and men are suppose to control the money and property. Rousseau has claimed that “How can women leave nursery for a campaign “(753). I believe that women can leave a nursery for a camp” in other words “going to war” because women have a say so on what’s fair to them and what’s not, so the women felt that they were treated unfairly to an certain extent.

-What happen to people who are born to wealth and have nothing to do?
-Wollstonecraft stated that the upper class spent much of their time gambling. She referred to the British heroes like Fabricius as one of the wealthy generals who gambled, that did not care about the country. Wollstonecraft made a point that “multiplying dependent and contriving taxes, which grind the poor and pamper the rich”. When she stated that I think she meant that what can’t help the poor makes the wealthy richer, because the wealthy people really don’t have much to worry about while the poor suffer. I do believe that men are dominant, but women have to be dominant also. Women are victorious soldiers, because to be so independent, and I think that Wollstonecraft is very independent and dominate to speak up for all the women in the world who has bee treated unfairly.


Works Cited
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinction Established in Society.” A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for College Writers. Lee A. Jacobs. 7th Ed. New York; Bedford St. Martins, 2006. pp 748-758.