A couple of peeks at Nietzsche and gender:
The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare.
And
[b]Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution—that is pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man?
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly…[/b]
Nietzsche, like the rest of us, is, first and foremost, dasein. His speculations on gender can never be extracted from the life he actually lived. Had he met different women or lived different experiences he might well have been persuaded to “reevaluate” gender relationships quite differently. But then given “the times” he [and misogynists like Schopenhauer] actually lived in the odds were not nearly as propitious as they are for men today who have ample access to gender perspectives that have, indeed, been profoundly “re-evaluated” by feminists of vast and varied persuasions. The irony here being that for some women it is not “male attitudes” versus “female attitudes” that rankles them nearly as much as the fact there are feminists out there who refuse to embrace the right feminism—their own.