Emancipation, as I mean to discuss it, is not the wish for an outward equality with man, but what is of real importance in the woman question, the deep-seated craving to acquire man's character, to attain his mental and moral freedom, to reach his real interests and his creative power. I maintain that the real female element has neither the desire nor the capacity for emancipation in this sense. In the above quote we see certain similarities to Freud's hypothesis about penis envy, which had a certain currency at this time. Some of Weininger's comments have a certain ambiguity. They may be true and they may be false in terms of their insight to male and female characteristics.
Woman has no comprehension of paragons.
On the contrary, it is well known that a woman is most ready to fly to the arms of the man with the widest reputation for being a Don Juan. The problem in such claims lies in his attempt to paint women and men into only one stereotyped image, with the woman looking decidedly amoral and all men given an honorific of being guided by higher ideals. This is a fundamental distortion of the manifest character and behaviour of real men and women. Feminists may well scoff at Weininger and cite him as yet another example of rampant male sexism. However this is misleading.