Im very confused on how access to the majority of all human knowledge through a rectangle in your pocket “rots your brain” Its only ever expanded mine
According to Kate Flint in her book The Woman Reader, this society standard was based on paradoxical arguments: first, certain texts might corrupt women’s innocent mind, and therefore, diminishing their value as women, and second, as women they were strangely having too little resistance to emotionally provocative material.
These arguments had their foundations from three hundred years ago: renaissance society believed that reading an inappropriate text might lead women to sexually and morally astray, both in imagination and reality, and distract them from developing intellectually and spiritually.
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