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experience, they have to look toward elders for the formation of opinions. Comparing women to children in this sense completely discredits all experiences they have had.
Not only is the second part of this quote a contradiction in and of itself, it sets the stage for future inconsistencies. On a more permanent level, it is impossible to give a tangible entity the qualities of an intangible one. That is comparable to personifying a spirit; it just doesn’t work. Even when one stays in the philosophical realm, which is the tone that this quote is implying, a similar problem arises. A soul is usually associated with a physical body. Despite the fact that these women were seen as the purest form (a soul) of the physical, they were still of this physical form. The expectation to be the embodiment of a soul renounces all the concrete qualities that are associated with the flesh. This fact leads her to one of two fates. Either the southern white woman would have to suppress all desires caused...