Real Syntactic on Nostr: Locke says that women’s irrationality and sexual allure is dangerous in the public ...

Locke says that women’s irrationality and sexual allure is dangerous in the public sphere. Fortunately the natural, conjugal contract that precedes the public sphere’s formation as a gathering of rational male citizens excludes women’s disruptiveness from political decisionmaking. The so-called “social contract” that sees citizens contract with each other to submit their natural right to a delegated state authority, whether parliament or president, requires women’s exclusion for stability 8/x