I could not help but gravitate towards the comment on that article where nervous chauvinists wring their fingers over the fact that perhaps, perhaps, people are giving a woman too much credit for what could have been her accomplishments in a time when married women in Austria could not even own property separate from their husbands. How can such men be presumed to converse in good faith when they refuse to budge an inch on the idea that women in the 18th century were given a terrible deal?

I wonder, when do they peg the date that men and women became treated equally and henceforth all difference in autonomy, liberty, and respect were due to the inherent superiority of men? It seems they still circle about pounding their hands on the good books lamenting the lost wisdom of the iron age.