This document has a major strength. That strength is that it was written by
the woman about her ideas about women and Confucianism. The weakness is that it is just one
woman’s words. It shocked me that
the woman referred to herself as by nature unintelligent. The next thing I don’t like is that
even just after birth women were belittled by placing the baby girl below the
bed so as if to get her use to being less important and below men. I also find it awful that she says,
“always let her seem to tremble and to fear”. Like a woman is trained to expressively show the men power
over them? Its like the
women really think their role is just to complement the man! It seems like they think it is just
their part in life to be subservient.
Following these lessons may help make a society be at harmony however, I could not imagine living following lesson for women by ban
zhao.
Sorry, I think I posted my blog to the docs and chapter in the wrong order!!!
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