Talk of trust, decency, honesty, virtue pepper our discourse. The soaps differentiate between characters in terms of their moral failings. Wilson argues that we irespective of the skepticism of our century that we render these moral desisions with some confidence and that we should not allow ourselves to be intimadated by talk of naivete and a Western arrogance about imposing our values on subject cultures. I suggested that his arguments were worth pondering. Rousseau the great defender of equality, sensitive to the role of society in shaping our values and educating us, regarded women as fixed and limited by their natures.
Women use the emotion of love to lure and tempt men.
They tempt and seduce men heightening their sexual passion and man's sexual needs as a mechanism of social control. Love becomes a mechnism of domination. They learn to live together but rather than living together equally, he defends a classic division of labor with women assigned by nature to a role of subordination in the home as homemaker and care giver. From the bonds of family we move to the level of bands and from their to a nation. It is at this time that inequality, on Rousseau's interpretation, makes its first presence.