In class, the story that stuck out the most to me was mary wollstonecraft. The reason is stuck out to me was because it was dealing with the conversation of empowering women and making women more independent. What confused me a little about the reading was that the author thought women being more independent and learning shouldn’t be seen as “manly” but a woman who hunts and fends for her family is. You would think that if she supported empowering women, she wouldn’t put a limit to what women could do in society. The reason I think she might have done this is because at the time women were not seen as much more than animals so she didn’t want to shoot for the stars when she knew she couldn’t even land on the moon. I think her message was right but she could have worded a few things differently or been completely for empowering women to do anything a man could do. What I didn’t like about her argument was that she thought women needed knowledge to be better wifes and better mothers, but not every woman wants to be a mother or a wife so her argument didn’t meet its full potential. But like i said i can see why she didn’t want to push it too far because men at the time wouldn’t have cared to hear what she had to say. Overall I thought the class had a very thorough discussion on this reading and it really opened my mind too how things were back then.
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English 2323-020 
I agree with with this post. Mary was wanting to give women power but she was limiting the power they could have. she wanted women to have knowledge on how to be a better house wife but not on how to provide food for your family. she was fighting for women but still acting like a man in a way. it not okay for women to learn how to hunt and provide for the family but it is okay for them to know how to clean a house and bath the children. she was still putting women in a role only made for women. when there should not be a role for women and a role for men. i think all men and women should be free to do what they want with their life. i agree that this did really open my eyes as to how the world used to be and i don’t think I would like to be a women in the older days .
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I agree with your point that Mary was limiting her empowerment of women. The reason I think Mary put things the way she did was to enable the first steps toward equality to be taken so that others could continue on the path she started. What really struck me about your post was your analogy about not shooting for the stars because she was worried, she wouldn’t even hit the moon. It’s hard to really know what exactly was in Mary’s mind, but she probably was worried that if she took too strong of a stance that men wouldn’t listen to her at all.
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I agree that Mary Wollstonecraft had bigger ideals of what a woman should be in society. I also think Mary Wollstonecraft secretly kept her feelings about women being more than just wives and mothers to herself because she did not want her work to be completely disregarded. With that being said I absolutely agree with the fact that she shouldn’t have done this because now women are being told once more that their roles are nothing more than being mothers. I also think its mind blowing that nowadays we find these ideals so crazy yet it’s what they used to abide by. All in all, I enjoyed our class discussion over this work.
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