"for the female. Schopenhauer wrote "Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted." He opined that women are deficient in artistic faculties and sense of justice, and expressed his opposition to
monogamy.
Rodgers and
Thompson in
Philosophers Behaving Badly call Schopenhauer "a misogynist without rival in ... Western philosophy". He claimed that "woman is by nature meant to obey". The essay does give some compliments, however: "women are decidedly more sober in their judgment than [men] are", and are more sympathetic to the suffering of others."
Holy fvck, I've always thought that women relate better psychologically to children because they are like one. It makes sense because they were designed to bare and raise children, their bodies and their minds are designed for that purpose alone. But of course they're obviously sentient and smarter than animals too.