Her subtly feminist argument rejects the commonly held medieval belief that women were the weaker sex, intended by God for exclusively passive and reproductive purposes.
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Women have long known that they are not the " weaker sex, " but a University of Washington anthropologist says he has proved it.
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However, as the boys believed girls to be the weaker sex, the boys began focusing on young girls " who were'easy to control'".
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Today, the nationwide ritual of female adoration tends to focus on the traditional roles of the people Russians still refer to as " the weaker sex ."
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Remarkably, for an age that prided itself on a protective attitude for the " weaker sex ", the conditions for women prisoners were persistently worse than for men.
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The song was also used in the season one seventh episode of " Sliders " entitled " The Weaker Sex, " which originally aired as episode six.
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But Turner has brought to the surface the ancient attitude that holds women are the weaker sex unsuited to compete with men, act like them or be treated like them.
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As late as my childhood, calling women " the weaker sex " was perfectly respectable, and let me tell you from personal experience, Viennese society still does.
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However, pushing alternatives to dissection as a women's issue may be a tough sell to some who wonder whether the strategy plays into stereotypes of women as the weaker sex.
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Prominent officials and the press heaped tributes on the country's women, referred to alternately as the " weaker sex " or the " beautiful half ."
