Mary Wollstonecraft - Her life and 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' / World's First Feminist 

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Thanks for the visit! Mary Wollstonecraft certainly lived a remarkable life, and I'm very glad Ms. Universe gave her a shout out!

Me too🤗🤗🤗

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And it makes me very happy to read your comment. Thank you!

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Yes, they are all great examples. I admire their work. I didn't exclude them because I thought they were not important leaders. I just thought the others I did include worked better for my expected audience. I've been wanting to do a video on Davis since I started the channel. Maybe someday soon!

The video editor could have wanted to have more modern feminist leaders for young women to recognize first glance. This video is about Mary Walstonecraft. You are right to give these examples however didn't Mary say women, "won't feel a need to exert power over someone else" referring to other women? They did not give any weak examples, they gave strong modern examples. Please keep an educated open mind about women feminists as written in Mary's text :))

There are a several women writers from the 16th and 17th centuries (and even a few male writers) who wrote about women and the relationship between the sexes, but I think Wollstonecraft is the first to take up recognizable issues of feminism in the modern age. If not Wollstonecraft, who do you think deserves the title? Let's bring attention to their good work.

Oh yes

Yes, really! I count at least two conservative politicians featured in the video - Nikki Haley and Margaret Thatcher. I hope you didn't fail to count the Iron Lady! And like her or not, AOC is a great example of an influential political leader. I imagine Wollstonecraft would be extremely proud of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accomplished.

@@FirstPersonPhilosophy Nikki and Iron Lady. Yes. As to AOC, Wollstonecraft would have instantly seen her as an intellectually vapid and just an “alluring object.” Liberals always think their women are more intellectually feminist than conservative women. It’s just not true. Conservative feminists are just as important as other feminists. That part of the video with the pictures needs more balance.

@@dcinsc7 We have very different ideas about AOC's intellect and influence, and we clearly disagree how we imagine what Wollstonecraft would have thought of her, but I agree with you that both liberal and conservative women are intelligent and have thoughtful ideas about feminism. Of course! Who would you like represented in the video? Your comments would help the dialogue surrounding this video. Thanks in advance.

@@FirstPersonPhilosophy I’m just being playfully argumentative. I played this video for my 12th grade British literature class and it helped them understand Wollstonecraft immensely, and I kept my personal comments to myself. Thank you for this video!

@@dcinsc7 sigh. That's like saying trolling

I think we just think of her differently. I have no interest in denying that she suffered from some form of depression or that she did not consider suicide. But rather than condemn her for those things, as I think her contemporaries foolishly did, I admire Wollstonecraft's courage to face and overcome the most challenging periods of her life. She didn't run from those difficulties, but lived through them as an independent and mature adult. That's to be praised. And what makes you think Wollstonecraft had any arrogant expectations? She was well educated and a proficient and published author. I actually think her call for change - that women be allowed to receive a full education - was very modest. In fact, her more progressive critics say she expected too little from the powerful forces in her society. What did I misunderstand from your comment?

@@FirstPersonPhilosophy This forum does not give enough space to express all my objections to Mary Wollstonecraft. The only thing we can agree on, is that we don't view her the same way. FYI, Mary was far from independent: she relied on the support of men all her life as was the case for most women in the 19th century. Her Father treated her badly and she bitterly and unfairly projected her hatred and contempt of him to the entire male gender. She was a misandrist. She wanted a feminist 'utopia' where women had all the privileges and men all the responsibilities. E.g. She wanted women to be more educated and expected men to provide it. She publicly emasculated the wise and sober statesman, Edmund Burke. Burke accepted the American revolution but he saw the French revolution as being too sudden, too brutal and he correctly anticipated its societal damage and 'Reign of terror' (that first French republic barely lasted 12 years before being usurped by the dictator Napoleon Bonaparte). She endorsed the French revolution in spite of its obvious evils with her "Vindication of the Rights of Men" and wanted its counterpart in her "Vindication of the Rights of Women"! Small wonder feminism in English-speaking countries, is an unmitigated disaster!

@@FirstPersonPhilosophy This forum does not give enough space to express all my objections to Mary Wollstonecraft. The only thing we can agree is that we don't view her the same way. FYI, Mary was far from independent: she relied on the support of men all her life as was the case for most women in the 19th century. Her Father treated her badly and she bitterly projected her hatred and contempt of him to the entire male gender. She was a misandrist. She wanted a feminist 'utopia' where women had all the privileges and men all the responsibilities. E.g. She wanted women to be more educated and expected men to provide it. She publicly emasculated the wise and sober statesman, Edmund Burke. Burke accepted the American revolution but he saw the French revolution as being too sudden, too brutal and he correctly anticipated its societal damage and 'Reign of terror' (that first French republic barely lasted 12 years before being usurped by the dictator Napoleon Bonaparte). She endorsed the French revolution with her "Vindication of the Rights of Men" and wanted its counterpart in her "Vindication of the Rights of Women"! Small wonder feminism in English-speaking countries, is an unmitigated disaster!

you are allowed to say that you've never even held hands with a women, don't worry

​@@sachad7013go cry to your daddy sir😂. But seriously, the fact that you are so scared of women educating themselves is ok. I assume you take everyone down instead of improving yourself😊

Let me guess...alpha male? Always claiming to be big and strong but show them a picture of a woman with a book and they cry like a 5yo with a skinned knee.