Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it. You could apply the same reasoning to all manner of things which can be put to either good or bad use. In none of these cases should you blame the thing in itself if foolish people use it unwisely. You yourself have made these points elsewhere in your writings. Those who subscribe to these opinions, whether in good or bad faith, have overstepped the mark in order to make their point. It’s like somebody cutting up the whole piece of cloth in order to make himself a huge coat simply because it’s not going to cost him anything and no one is going to object. It thus stops anyone else from using the material. If instead, as you yourself have rightly remarked, these writers had tried to find ways to save men from indulging in vice and from frequenting debauched women by attacking only the morals and the habits of those who were evidently guilty of such behaviour, I freely admit that they would have produced texts which were extremely useful. It’s true that there’s nothing worse than a woman who is dissolute and depraved: she’s like a monster, a creature going against its own nature, which is to be timid, meek and pure. I can assure you that those writers who condemn the entire female sex for being sinful, when in fact there are so many women who are extremely virtuous, are not acting with my approval. They’ve committed a grave error, as do all those who subscribe to their views. So let us throw out these horrible, ugly, misshapen stones from your work as they have no place in your beautiful city.
‘Other men have criticized women for different reasons: some because they are themselves steeped in sin, some because of a bodily impediment, some out of sheer envy, and some quite simply because they naturally take delight in slandering others. There are also some who do so because they like to flaunt their erudition: they have come across these views in books and so like to quote the authors whom they have read.
‘Those who criticize the female sex because they are inherently sinful are men who have wasted their youth on dissolute behaviour and who have had affairs with many different women. These men have therefore acquired cunning through their many experiences and have grown old without repent
How much has she influenced modern feminism. Without her, would 1st and 2nd wave feminism have happened. I've tried to research but all the sites I have come across say that she was immensely influential but don't say why. They say that the next generation of women read her work but what about afterwards?
Hi, this is my first post on r/poetry, but I do write a bit on the side. I’m currently taking an ancient literature course and we reached the medieval period. We started today and I’ve been asked to write a few paragraphs on Ballad XIII by Christine de Pizan.
The ballad goes like:
Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame, And for God's love the contrary eschew Of good report, lest thus you come to blame : Nor make your choice of all acquaintance new.
For some might tell (such evil tongues have they), How wanton manners in your life they see, Though never yet in any fault you lay : And from such faithless rascals keep you free.
For little would it serve to bear the name Of one whom many love, yet find for due Nought but dishonour that from slanderers came Telling abroad how in your works they knew
Your wantonness : so well it is alway To hold aloof, ere any trial be, From ill that follows after foolish play, And from such faithless rascals keep you free.
Nay, be ye rather armed against the same With perfect wit, so tirelessly they sue To stain your honour, whence full often shame Comes without cause, yet they to pleasure you
Feign courtesy : my warning may not stay, So oft I hear how those ye hold in fee Blame you no less : withdraw from these, I pray, And from such faithless rascals keep you free.
Most noble ladies ! be not wroth to-day That I have ever counselled you to flee These traitors : trust me, though no more I say, And from such faithless rascals keep you free.
So far I’ve noticed that she was being sarcastic, however, I’m specifically having trouble identifying what she was trying to accomplish.
Thanks!
>« Ce que je pense de la venue d’Éric Zemmour ? J’en tremble et j’en chialerais. Je pensais rencontrer des gens qui étaient contre. En fait, il n’y a que des gens pour. Ça me fait très très mal, je suis complètement abattue », lâche Christine, dans un sanglot, sur le parvis de la mairie des Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée). Ce samedi 8 janvier, cette Sablaise a tenté d’entamer la discussion avant de se rendre compte de sa méprise. Elle n’était pas au bon endroit, sur cette place totalement acquise à Éric Zemmour. Elle est repartie les larmes aux yeux.
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>https://www.ouest-france.fr/elections/presidentielle/presidentielle-zemmour-et-de-villiers-reunis-autour-d-une-statue-aux-sables-d-olonne-a21ab7de-7085-11ec-9b62-f78e35bb8c6f
Yo, what was the name of the dude who ran Pizan’s in Towson? I know they’re closed now, but I can’t remember. Was it Jimmy? Help me out- the details are fuzzy.
How much has she influenced 1st and 2nd wave feminism, as well as feminism today? Without her, would feminism suffer greatly? Please cite sources. Thanks.
