Women can't be expected to control their emotions. EVEN men are prone to grief. Marcia can be consoled like an honorary man. Naturally they are as inferior as slaves. Inability to control anger is womanish.
Men degrade themselves by imitating female luxury.
Unfaithful women criticized much more harshly than unfaithful men. But women can show pietas. She shows virtus, she is free from ordinary female weakness and lack of control. His father wouldn't let his mother have a proper liberal education. When speaking directly to a woman, S assures her that a woman is as capable of virtus as a man.