But to stop with the misogyny built into the idea of women as weaker and less rational than men distorts a still larger historical picture.
Another 'imaginative disposition' of the medieval reader should also be mentioned, little though we may be inclined to commend it: a traditional and bitter misogyny.
Indeed, her misogyny was intrinsic to her feminism.
The female's excess of life, vitality and proximity to nature accounted for his every display of envy, competitiveness and misogyny.
While his misogyny and imperialism may seem alien and indeed abhorrent to modern readers, the book's value as a historical document remains undiminished.
In it he addressed the issue of misogyny in rap lyrics, and used the phrase, 'get your woman on the floor', as an example of a rapper's misogynistic intent.
Beerbohm's self-restraint was accompanied, in typical dandy fashion, by self-protective misogyny, as he tried to maintain the opposition between female flamboyance and male discipline.
This kind of casual misogyny appears to be acceptable: it was not criticised elsewhere in that issue of the magazine or in the letters pages of subsequent issues.