Men VS. Women

In Gulliver’s Travel he touches on men and women and the roles of both. Although Men had more say so women had say so as well but only in particular areas. “In this sense, the public world belonged entirely to men, who determined the course of government, defined the limits of the important, enforced their sense of the fitness of things /in France, such social life took place often in salons gathers to engaged in intellectual as well as frivolous conversation. Women typically presided over these salons, thus declaring both their intellectual authority and their capacity to combine high hand” Introduction to Gulliver’s Travel. As you can see women had power but they only had enough power to share amongst themselves. At this time is was an outrage for a woman to stand upon her two feet and present information to the world as if nothing would be wrong with that picture. Although women had intellect men also blamed the women for the things that were happening in their country. They blamed them for diseases that came about. Women were known as prostitutes. “That prostitute female Yahoos acquitted a certain embraces: that this and many other diseases were propagated from father to son: so that great numbers come into the world with complicated maladies upon them: that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incidental to human bodies; for they could not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb, and joint; in short; every part, external and intestine having diseases appropriated to each.