Chapter 2814: The Elephant and the Rope
Your interests revolve around raising your child, and if you had any energy left, you attended to your husband.
Psychology has an experiment called “the elephant and the rope.” A baby elephant, tied by a rope, could not break free no matter how hard it tried.
Once it grew into a massive creature, the rope became a joke in comparison, but the elephant never attempted to break free again.
It had accepted the belief that “the rope cannot be broken,” illustrating “learned helplessness.”
Most traditional methods of raising girls were, in fact, a form of benevolent sexist confinement.
Using gentler protection than a rope, it silently nurtured women’s helplessness, amplifying their perceived weakness.
These ideas stemmed from social and familial values ingrained in women’s minds.
Even women themselves came to accept that they were not as smart as men, that they were weaker, and that their value relied on the existence of another person.
“I’m a woman, so I need to rely on a man. I’m weak and need constant comfort and meticulous care.”