Probably refering to the middle ages and renescaince up to the first world war where women were just seen as obedient housewifes and only the few to not fit that rule, meaning disobeying the church, royals and society as whole are know to this day.
I think it means that women who dont take risks or are not brave won't be remembered or leave a legacy. Women who are dull and uneducated won't change the world or receive recognition they will be just forgotten.
If I turn it around, "Ill mannered women seldom make history", then I conclude it's a meaningless quote. When I apply it further to include men as well, it validates. People, individually, seldom make history, regardless of their mannerisms.
@yourbodyyourchoice Great update. I think it's important to recognize the past. Similar to individual behavior, the past as well is apt to repeat. Thank you for the question and the sharing.
Yeah sure, Marie Curie, Emilie du Châtelet and many other extraordinary women are unknown right? History forgot them, right? Because of patriarchy and all. If you could not tell, all of this was sarcasm.
Add to that all the women who were working in the factories while the men were at war, the female resistance fighters... They definitely got ignored by History too...
Probably means that the typical housewife isn't getting anywhere. But you can even be a housewife and have a hobby as a screen writer, or political activist. You don't need to let your career/place in life hold you back ever! ^^
There's a lot of truth to this, but the main sidenote is that well-behaved PEOPLE rarely make history. How many "well-behaved" men have been important to our histories?
That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't behave, however. Most women who are in prison weren't well-behaved either. The world would be a better place if they were better behaved. Sometimes its good for women to behave, sometimes it isn't.
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Not necessarily. Florence Nightingale was probably quite well behaved and yet she made history. And I met many badly behaved girls at school and I think it is very unlikely they will make history.
I'm curious about how information gets translated from one contributor to another as if the answer to a particular question has been rendered or accepted as "correct" when in fact as time goes by we see an application to correct the answer from the original contributor but without allowing the "correctness" to be associated with the "actual" correct answer to the question or in our case here I might add that a male might accept credit for the females contribution to humanity's quest to make life a little easier to deal with period ! PS : I'm just giving a small example of how information might be filtered through and redirected where needed on a websight or throughout humans "historical" assention to the top of the so called food chain !
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Probably refering to the middle ages and renescaince up to the first world war where women were just seen as obedient housewifes and only the few to not fit that rule, meaning disobeying the church, royals and society as whole are know to this day.
I think it means that women who dont take risks or are not brave won't be remembered or leave a legacy. Women who are dull and uneducated won't change the world or receive recognition they will be just forgotten.
If I turn it around, "Ill mannered women seldom make history", then I conclude it's a meaningless quote. When I apply it further to include men as well, it validates. People, individually, seldom make history, regardless of their mannerisms.
@yourbodyyourchoice Great update. I think it's important to recognize the past. Similar to individual behavior, the past as well is apt to repeat. Thank you for the question and the sharing.
Yeah sure, Marie Curie, Emilie du Châtelet and many other extraordinary women are unknown right? History forgot them, right? Because of patriarchy and all. If you could not tell, all of this was sarcasm.
Add to that all the women who were working in the factories while the men were at war, the female resistance fighters... They definitely got ignored by History too...
The Suffragettes weren't well behaved and they made history. MLK Jr was extremely liberal and was arrested multiple times.
MLK Jr wasn't a woman, so the quote doesn't apply to him.
Otherwise it'd be "Well-behaved people seldom make history."
@Boppy I was trying to say that both genders make history but thanks for pointing that out
Anytime, just helping ya shine.
@Boppy sure whatever you want to call it.
Hmmm, noo...
Its more like, Do well behaved women seldom get worshiped like idols?
-Perhaps well behaved women are modest and dont care to make history!
people in general just give up at life or settle. Fate favors the brave and these brave women except that muderer hilary
It depends on what you mean by 'well behaved.' If that mean constant deference, then the answer is yes, history is seldom made be well behaved women.
Probably means that the typical housewife isn't getting anywhere. But you can even be a housewife and have a hobby as a screen writer, or political activist. You don't need to let your career/place in life hold you back ever! ^^
Well behaved men also seldom make history. Making history is not always a good thing though.
It's not wrong, but specifying women is pretty pointless since it is the same for men as well.
There's a lot of truth to this, but the main sidenote is that well-behaved PEOPLE rarely make history. How many "well-behaved" men have been important to our histories?
They make history, they just don't make the face of Twitter
My mother has this quote as a fridge magnet. But ironically, she herself still tries to be well-behaved anyway 🤔🤷🏻♂️
It’s unfair to make a judgement without some context...
That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't behave, however. Most women who are in prison weren't well-behaved either. The world would be a better place if they were better behaved. Sometimes its good for women to behave, sometimes it isn't.
Not necessarily. Florence Nightingale was probably quite well behaved and yet she made history. And I met many badly behaved girls at school and I think it is very unlikely they will make history.
It's probably true otherwise many notable "female" contributions to human endeavor would not be realized as female contributions ! Would they?
I'm curious about how information gets translated from one contributor to another as if the answer to a particular question has been rendered or accepted as "correct" when in fact as time goes by we see an application to correct the answer from the original contributor but without allowing the "correctness" to be associated with the "actual" correct answer to the question or in our case here I might add that a male might accept credit for the females contribution to humanity's quest to make life a little easier to deal with period ! PS : I'm just giving a small example of how information might be filtered through and redirected where needed on a websight or throughout humans "historical" assention to the top of the so called food chain !
An attempt to be edgy kind of like the shit posts you see on here.
Depends on whether you read it with you right or left brain hemisphere. And then you add the dimension of time on top of it.