{"id":36410,"date":"2016-11-30T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36410"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:43:39","slug":"qotd-napoleons-misogynistic-views-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/qotd-napoleons-misogynistic-views-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Napoleon&#8217;s misogynistic views"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; &#8220;What do most ladies have to complain of? Don&#8217;t we acknowledge they have souls &#8230; They demand equality! Pure madness! Woman is our property &#8230; just as the fruit tree belongs to the gardener.&#8221; Only inadequate education could make a wife think she was on the same level as her husband. Convinced of &#8220;the weakness of the female intellect&#8221;, he considered his brother Joseph extraordinary in enjoying the other sex&#8217;s company as well as their bodies &mdash; &#8220;He&#8217;s forever shut away with some woman reading Torquato Tasso and Aretino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However gracefully phrased, his opinion of adultery revealed utter cynicism. In the end it is &#8220;a joke behind a mask &#8230; not by any means a rare phenomenon but a very ordinary occurrence on the sofa&#8221;. He had surprisingly modern views on women as soldiers. &#8220;They are brave, incredibly enthusiastic and capable of the most frightful atrocities &#8230; In a real war between men and women the only thing which would handicap women would be pregnancy, since the women of the people are just as strong as most men.&#8221; (In this he was far more progressive than the F&uuml;hrer.)<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Seward, <em>Napoleon and Hitler: A comparative biography<\/em>, 1988.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; &#8220;What do most ladies have to complain of? Don&#8217;t we acknowledge they have souls &#8230; They demand equality! Pure madness! Woman is our property &#8230; just as the fruit tree belongs to the gardener.&#8221; Only inadequate education could make a wife think she was on the same level as her husband. Convinced of &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5,41],"tags":[1391,969,1009,43],"class_list":["post-36410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-quotations","tag-biography","tag-hitler","tag-napoleon","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9tg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36468,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410\/revisions\/36468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}