Did Nietzsche hate women?
By ubermensch
@ubermensch (136)
Philippines
October 26, 2010 3:38am CST
In Nietzsche's philosophy, there are some aphorisms concerning his criticism on women. He said:
"Woman is not yet capable of friendship; she knows only love."
"Concerning woman, one should only talk to men. Everything in a woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution- it is called pregnancy."
"Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that a woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the instinct for the secondary rule."
Do you agree with Nietzsche's view on women?
1 response
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
26 Oct 10
He sounds like a guy who had troubles with women, and blamed the women!
I don't agree with those views. There are some women who likely fit that bill, just as there are men about whom could be said the same (well, with some variations, like the bit about pregnancy. It could be said that for some men, the solution to their every problem is the act that leads to pregnancy!)
It's wrong to paint an entire sub-group of the human race with the same brush. Women, men, different age groups, races, religions, etc...all will have some representatives that are geniuses, some that are stupid, some that are shallow, some that are deep...you get the idea.
