I am reading my first work by Arthur Schopenhauer ...whatta guy, lol. His opinions about women are something to behold!

One may wish that his 'truths' about women do not become 'self evident' after passing through ridicule and violent opposition!

for those unaware:" Views on women" (wiki)

In Schopenhauer's essay "On Women" (Über die Weiber), he expressed his opposition to what he called "Teutonico-Christian stupidity" on female affairs. He claimed that "woman is by nature meant to obey", and opposed Schiller's poem in honor of women, Würde der Frauen. The essay does give two compliments however: that "women are decidedly more sober in their judgment than [men] are" and are more sympathetic to the suffering of others. However, the latter was discounted as weakness rather than humanitarian virtue.