This Nüshu 女書 is a written language. It is a phonetic script. When it is read out it is a regional language, Xiangnan Tuhua 湘南土話, in the Hunan 湖南 province area of modern China. Therefore it would be incorrect to say that it is a language only women "speak."
Very interesting! I wish they had given more details about how the script relates to traditional script, if it were pictographic or alphabetic and so on.
No the language is not only spoken by women, it is spoken by all people in the Xiangnan Tuhua-speaking community. And yes, the script was only used by some women in that region. That means the script, the written language, doesn't automatically belong to all women or all Chinese women, or fit other languages. Some care nothing about the spoken language the script writes and distort history for feminist concerns, and the woman in 4:14 said she was not so worried about the extinction of the script, which to me is just disrespectful and arrogant to the women who originally create and practice the tradtion of using the specific language and script.
I am so baffled by the idea that women agreed that men should rule. We are so competent.. as beings... but so eager to comply. Seems to be a design flaw. God???
Women didn't agree, we were threatened with violence or murder and gaslighted for centuries. Wanting to survive isn't a design flaw. Plus when you're brought up with a lot of indoctrination, it's so hard to see past it. And it's not just women who were indoctrinated, men were too and in so many places in the world its still happening. Violent acts and abuse still happen because of this mindset. You're right in saying it's baffling because it's such a needless waste and we humans should have known better. But it's extremely unfair to say it's a 'design flaw' in women and I sincerely hope that this is not what you meant. :/
It is actually a fact that women test higher on agreeableness than men. We are in fact more eager to please! And that is okay because it makes us great family members and friends! The differences between men and women helped humans succeed as a species and we have no proof that we would have been better off otherwise.
Nobody forced you to watch this video, let alone leave your useless comment. I am sure that as someone living in a "free world" (whatever that means), you are free enough to ignore content you are not interested in.
Even the so-called "free world" isn't so free. Women has always been silenced even in the so-called "free world" in history. Many women in western society used to write works under male pseudonyms. If this was a video on female writers' struggles in westerners' history would you have made the same comment? Are you trying to also silence women as they try to share their history. This is something many females can relate to and it's not just because the women in this video are from China.
