“A Society”
● Setting is pleasant cafe
● 6-7 friends
● They spoke of the envy they have for those that hook a
handsome brilliant man
● A gay friend becomes upset over the other womens envy
● Poll is ugly
● Father left money in will if poll read books but poll hates books
● Poll hates books written by men but is forced
● Clorinda says she never spent time reading books and perhaps
poll is right
● Questioning how all books are written by men
● Debating the fairness between responsibilities and rewards
between men and women
● The women swore to study all of the fields dominated by men
before they would have any more children
● Angry they can read but never decided to do it
● A society for asking questions
● Judge results of the world created by men
● Spanked for dressing as man
● Speaks of how well the professors live
● having baby and worried of being impure for group
● Group declares she is pure and can stay
● Speaks of invention for fertilizing women
● Speaks of tragedies in world and how it is too much for them to
handle
● A good man must be honest passionate and unworldly
● Men insult the women in public discussion
● Object of life is to create good people and good books
● Belief in mens intellect is greatest fallacy of them all
● Understandable resentment of men for taking control of
production in world but stubborn misguided misogyny leads the
women to hatred for majority of men
● Jealous of the unfair advantage men receive in education from a
young age
● Once you can read the only thing you can learn to believe in is
yourself
● Became president of the women's society for the future