Well to me, it shows these particular pieces demonstrate the true short comings of thought that some stoics had.
I am a woman. I am and have always been an adherent to stoicism. I've never once considered it a manly pursuit- that thought has never even crossed my mind and honestly reading that sentence here today perplexed me. Really? I am supposed to conclude that stoicism -- how to deal with reality- is just for men? How absurd.
I cannot remember a time when the lessons and wisdom of stoicism weren't apart of my life. I think I must've come to it through my Catholic school upbringing. So many things I have read as an adult on it came to me first through the lessons from the nuns, priests, and friars of my youth. Though I have left the dogma of Catholicism behind, I still practice stoicism.
Given the universal principles of stoicism, I consider it applicable to all. I suppose as a woman, so much has been written by men for men historically that I now view those texts as the universal "men" and don't consider that I am not meant to be the intended audience.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Perhaps your female friends' resistance comes from your mansplaining because if you reply to them like the bro you just did here to our replies, I understand why they don't want to hear a thing you have to say about stoicism or otherwise.
You picked a piece that specifically addresses women and as " a women should"— I cannot think of any other post I've read that said "men should" so when you choose a particularly gendered piece and it basically adheres to ultra conservative ideology of a woman taking care of her home and her main objective is to be virtuous it really pisses off some of us.
I wasn't particularly miffed at the piece, thinking it was a an extreme example to make a point, but the fact you seem genuinely baffled as to why women might be offended by it shows how limited your ability to view the world through anyone else's eyes is. I suggest a lot more fiction reading, especially by women authors. A lot more history, but try to think of it from the point of view of a woman.
Never thought of Stoicism as a manly pursuit. Reading this put me off quite a bit, some of the thoughts haven’t aged well. What bothers me is that you didn’t state how some of these things are dated but seemed to be quite okay with it. I don’t need a man telling me how I should be a good housekeeper 🙂
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Your posts claim to share practical advice on Stoicism and psychology for daily life.
But for whom, and in what context?
Are women in modern society meant to be part of your audience?
If yes, then this is a call to all women, men, and beings who regard women as autonomous and equal to unsubscribe.
Holding up the rigid prescriptions of ancient Stoic texts about how women “ought” to behave is not practical education.
It is a contradiction of Stoicism’s purpose - to offer tools for resilience, clarity, and human flourishing.
When you elevate passages that portray women as lacking standing or autonomy, you are not simply quoting history—you are reinforcing and reanimating the prejudices of that history. You once again punish and re-traumatize women.
Stoicism’s core virtues are universal.
They belong to all people, not just to the men who wrote about them two thousand years ago. Surviving texts were born in an era of social inequality. Recycling those gendered constraints today as if they were “timeless ideals” conflates philosophy with oppression.
Decency demands that the poster distinguish between philosophy’s enduring principles and the cultural prejudices that once suffocated more than half of humanity.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
I am sorry but I unsubscribed today. I loved your posts because of course they where to me also as a woman and a complete part of humanity. Today I felted excluded and in a time travel to a past time that is not welcome today. So today is the day that will continue to be a stoic human being, but in a place where that is clear, for everyone.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
I don't see how the stoicism lessons would be different from a gender or the other. These could all apply to men as well. The mention of the gender here only reflect the time when this was written
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Interesting point on the expectation that an educated person would be more courageous than an uneducated person; I would actually expect the opposite. I think that educated people can be too cerebral when courage usually comes from a different place than the mind.
Also, I wonder if the stoics would place a high premium on education in today’s world given how much it’s become an indoctrination camp.
Life itself would not be possible without women, while your words describe them as a 2D character in your all important life, with limiting roles. My perception of your mind has changed, and I feel you have a limited understanding of just how much they contribute to the society that affords you the privilege of writing such content. May you be guided towards a path where women are equal peers in your path to stoicism. I hope you are humbled gently.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Perfectly and gently stated. The content is not the Substack writers, it’s a distant (in the past📚) stoic, but to use it in the manner it’s used is discouraging 😔given how hard women have worked to be what they already were, 🟰EQUAL.
As a husband, and the father of two women, I’m highly offended 😠 by the ideas that studying stoicism and philosophy is masculine or that a woman’s understanding of philosophy makes her somehow a better wife, housekeeper, or more loyal and chaste in her marriage.
Women make up more than half the 🌍 population! The study of stoicism and philosophy should teach men to lean into the compassion, empathy, and selflessness that mothers🤰🏼 and women innately exhibit daily, all over the world.
In short, be better men by doing all the things described by this ancient author wrote on behalf of your spouse, lover, daughter, mother, and all women. 👭
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
That’s an unsubscribe. No one feels the need to illustrate specifically how a “good man” should need to be to study philosophy or the art of living. And no one reading the stoics now should feel the need to make the distinction that it somehow applies differently to women or men.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
So I have read again, read comments and your comment. I most likely took this the wrong way. Think it touched a nerve inside of me. Thank you for replying
Under normal conditions and with great dedication, this definition of womanhood can be possible, but what happens to that same women if pain or incapacitation overwhelms her natural women traits?
I understand your concern. But that’s why we have community; if pain is too much we seek refuge in our families and friends, in philosophy. Because what else is the other option?
Well to me, it shows these particular pieces demonstrate the true short comings of thought that some stoics had.
I am a woman. I am and have always been an adherent to stoicism. I've never once considered it a manly pursuit- that thought has never even crossed my mind and honestly reading that sentence here today perplexed me. Really? I am supposed to conclude that stoicism -- how to deal with reality- is just for men? How absurd.
I cannot remember a time when the lessons and wisdom of stoicism weren't apart of my life. I think I must've come to it through my Catholic school upbringing. So many things I have read as an adult on it came to me first through the lessons from the nuns, priests, and friars of my youth. Though I have left the dogma of Catholicism behind, I still practice stoicism.
Given the universal principles of stoicism, I consider it applicable to all. I suppose as a woman, so much has been written by men for men historically that I now view those texts as the universal "men" and don't consider that I am not meant to be the intended audience.
I read these quotes as men only seeing how it benefits them personally to have a wife who studies philosophy. We need a modern update for stoic women.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Perhaps your female friends' resistance comes from your mansplaining because if you reply to them like the bro you just did here to our replies, I understand why they don't want to hear a thing you have to say about stoicism or otherwise.
You picked a piece that specifically addresses women and as " a women should"— I cannot think of any other post I've read that said "men should" so when you choose a particularly gendered piece and it basically adheres to ultra conservative ideology of a woman taking care of her home and her main objective is to be virtuous it really pisses off some of us.
I wasn't particularly miffed at the piece, thinking it was a an extreme example to make a point, but the fact you seem genuinely baffled as to why women might be offended by it shows how limited your ability to view the world through anyone else's eyes is. I suggest a lot more fiction reading, especially by women authors. A lot more history, but try to think of it from the point of view of a woman.
Yeah, I just had a talk about this with my girlfriend actually.
She explained how it came off- especially the mansplaining, which wasn’t my intention, and I understand now.
I appreciate your time and critique, Hunter.
Yes, liked this and thank you.
Never thought of Stoicism as a manly pursuit. Reading this put me off quite a bit, some of the thoughts haven’t aged well. What bothers me is that you didn’t state how some of these things are dated but seemed to be quite okay with it. I don’t need a man telling me how I should be a good housekeeper 🙂
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
This kind of stoicism could be applied in the past,but stoicism reach the present,which is not real for today's women
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Be aware.
Your posts claim to share practical advice on Stoicism and psychology for daily life.
But for whom, and in what context?
Are women in modern society meant to be part of your audience?
If yes, then this is a call to all women, men, and beings who regard women as autonomous and equal to unsubscribe.
Holding up the rigid prescriptions of ancient Stoic texts about how women “ought” to behave is not practical education.
It is a contradiction of Stoicism’s purpose - to offer tools for resilience, clarity, and human flourishing.
When you elevate passages that portray women as lacking standing or autonomy, you are not simply quoting history—you are reinforcing and reanimating the prejudices of that history. You once again punish and re-traumatize women.
Stoicism’s core virtues are universal.
They belong to all people, not just to the men who wrote about them two thousand years ago. Surviving texts were born in an era of social inequality. Recycling those gendered constraints today as if they were “timeless ideals” conflates philosophy with oppression.
Decency demands that the poster distinguish between philosophy’s enduring principles and the cultural prejudices that once suffocated more than half of humanity.
Your choice:
hold up what is timeless and humane or
risk dying, irrelevant and loathed.
Love,
Mom
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
I am sorry but I unsubscribed today. I loved your posts because of course they where to me also as a woman and a complete part of humanity. Today I felted excluded and in a time travel to a past time that is not welcome today. So today is the day that will continue to be a stoic human being, but in a place where that is clear, for everyone.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
I don't see how the stoicism lessons would be different from a gender or the other. These could all apply to men as well. The mention of the gender here only reflect the time when this was written
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Interesting point on the expectation that an educated person would be more courageous than an uneducated person; I would actually expect the opposite. I think that educated people can be too cerebral when courage usually comes from a different place than the mind.
Also, I wonder if the stoics would place a high premium on education in today’s world given how much it’s become an indoctrination camp.
Life itself would not be possible without women, while your words describe them as a 2D character in your all important life, with limiting roles. My perception of your mind has changed, and I feel you have a limited understanding of just how much they contribute to the society that affords you the privilege of writing such content. May you be guided towards a path where women are equal peers in your path to stoicism. I hope you are humbled gently.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Perfectly and gently stated. The content is not the Substack writers, it’s a distant (in the past📚) stoic, but to use it in the manner it’s used is discouraging 😔given how hard women have worked to be what they already were, 🟰EQUAL.
As a husband, and the father of two women, I’m highly offended 😠 by the ideas that studying stoicism and philosophy is masculine or that a woman’s understanding of philosophy makes her somehow a better wife, housekeeper, or more loyal and chaste in her marriage.
Women make up more than half the 🌍 population! The study of stoicism and philosophy should teach men to lean into the compassion, empathy, and selflessness that mothers🤰🏼 and women innately exhibit daily, all over the world.
In short, be better men by doing all the things described by this ancient author wrote on behalf of your spouse, lover, daughter, mother, and all women. 👭
SMH🤦🏻♂️
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
That’s an unsubscribe. No one feels the need to illustrate specifically how a “good man” should need to be to study philosophy or the art of living. And no one reading the stoics now should feel the need to make the distinction that it somehow applies differently to women or men.
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Unsubscribed
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
Ol’ Red Head was always my favourite Stoic.
I will need to think on this. Parts of it bother me. Did a man or men write these points?
Why are you all bent on misunderstanding this entry?
How is it even demeaning for a woman to take care of things in her house- to nurture, to be self-controlled, to act with justice and wisdom?
I didn’t even say it applies differently to women and men.
In fact, it’s just a reiteration of the philosophy as it applies to everyone.
My main aim with the piece was to address the resistance some of my female friends face when they hear about Stoicism, with a view that someone else in the world is facing the same resistance- it’s how I create my pieces. They shy away from it because they think it’s the ‘bro stoicism’ of emotional suppression, nonchalance and numbness posited in Youtube, tiktok and other media.
I’ve clearly described this in the first paragraph.
How did wisdom just become a gender war?
Or how would you have written it? I genuinely want to know.
So I have read again, read comments and your comment. I most likely took this the wrong way. Think it touched a nerve inside of me. Thank you for replying
I also understand my shortcoming Susan. I shouldn’t have made the piece look like I was mansplaining, that wasn’t my intention.
I appreciate your contribution in the discussion.
Under normal conditions and with great dedication, this definition of womanhood can be possible, but what happens to that same women if pain or incapacitation overwhelms her natural women traits?
I understand your concern. But that’s why we have community; if pain is too much we seek refuge in our families and friends, in philosophy. Because what else is the other option?