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How can the Analects of Confucius say such an insulting language as "villain"?
The word "villain" comes from the sentence "Only women are difficult to raise" in The Analects of Confucius. The villain here is not an insulting word, because in his situation at that time, the word villain was the antonym of a gentleman, and villain refers to a person whose conduct and morality did not meet the social situation and needs at that time. He is not an insulting word, this sentence just shows his personal opinion.

Now there are both commendatory and derogatory terms. The villain here is derogatory, but he speaks in a declarative tone without personal feelings. If he insists that it is an insulting word, it is actually not established. He is not like the villain we are talking about now, and his meaning is really not very good. But at that time, judging from the social conditions at that time, the villain was his general name for people with bad conduct. And women are not the women we are talking about now, or women and children. In the case of this sentence at that time, this woman is what you mean, so we think that the villain he said is an insulting word, only his own subjective opinion, not an objective evaluation.