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Aristotle, who famously saw women as deficient men who didn’t have enough heat to cook their blood and therefore purify the soul, and as a result had weaker reasoning powers
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there was a problem for the Enlightenment thinkers: why wouldn’t the natural rights in the new democracy be extended to women and people who weren’t white men? There needed to be some kind of rationale for it
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drew on “limited energy theorem” to propose that there was going to be a quite dangerous consequence of allowing women to engage in the hard intellectual labor of attending university because their reproductive systems use so much energy, and in a limited energy system, that energy will be sucked up to their brains and would cause infertility, mental health issues, etc. So, the consequences would be quite dire.
✏️ Dr Edward Clarke from late 19th century 🔗 View Highlight