Schopenhauer's view of women has always been defiled by people. Of course, it has its own personal bias, but it is not groundless. In this regard, I want to express my views:

Schopenhauer's view of women, in a word, is: "Women lack rationality and wisdom".

So, do women lack rationality and wisdom?

First of all, we must analyze this problem from the perspective of nature and history:

In society, as the person in charge of fertility and rearing, the first quality that women need is related characteristics: kindness, meekness and so on. In matriarchal society, women are responsible for collecting fruits and taking care of family affairs. Men are responsible for going out hunting. Obviously, the work that men are engaged in at this time obviously needs better thinking. These physical differences between men and women are caused by long-term natural selection. Thousands of years ago, human society changed from matrilineal clan society to paternal clan society, and men replaced women and occupied an important position in society. The decline of women's social status results in the limitation of women's own development. In patriarchal society, men shoulder the heavy responsibility of supporting their families and occupy a dominant position in the family.

Women are usually confined to the space where they play the role of mothers. In terms of learning and education, women have no conditions. With the long-term development of patriarchal society and the need of society for women, there will inevitably be differences in intellectual development between men and women. Advocating women's independence is a modern thing. Generally speaking, men are intellectually superior.

According to relevant scientific research and investigation, men do have an advantage in intelligence, especially in logical thinking. This can also explain why scientists and philosophers are mostly men. Of course, this advantage is not absolute. In modern society, there are also many women who have contributed to scientific research.

In addition, in Schopenhauer's era, men's social status was higher than that of women. Generally speaking, women's opportunities for education were far less than men's. There is no doubt that the overall quality of women is lower than that of men.

In addition, I want to make an explanation according to the knowledge of psychology:

According to MBTI theory, Schopenhauer's personality type is INTJ (Introversion/Intuition/Thinking/Judgment), which is the most unique personality among the sixteen personality types of MBTI, accounting for about 1% ~ 2% of the population. Relevant surveys and data show that people with this personality are most likely to have high IQ. Many scientists and philosophers have this personality, including Heraclitus, Plato, Zhuangzi, Newton, Kant and Wittgenstein. ) INTJ and INTP (introversion/intuition/thinking/perception) are listed as the two smartest personalities. At the same time, INTJ personality is the most different personality between men and women, and the proportion of INTJ women in the total female population is the lowest among all personalities (probably less than 1%). INTJ's personality characteristics are completely inconsistent with those of traditional women: aloof, withdrawn, deep, curious, critical and critical. Here, let's think about Schopenhauer's personality. On the other hand, the number of T (thinking type) men is far greater than that of women, and F (emotional type) women account for a large proportion of the female population. Therefore, it is not entirely unreasonable to say that women who lack rationality and wisdom do exist universally in our society. It is worth mentioning that Schopenhauer's father is also from INTJ. We remember Schopenhauer said that he inherited his father's personality. (Although according to modern genetic research, personality is not entirely determined by the father) and his mother is likely to be an ENFJ (extroversion/intuition/emotion/judgment).

Unfortunately, Schopenhauer, an extreme INTJ, has hardly met any woman with profound wisdom in his life. He is more like a shrew aunt or a street socialite. His prejudice against women is understandable. However, after Schopenhauer became an adult in his later years, he had some female followers, especially the female artist who sculpted statues for him (it should be INTJ), and his views on women changed greatly. But the articles about women have been handed down forever, and the notoriety of misogyny on his back is indelible in history.