Ead the excerpt from a vindication of the rights of woman. consider, i address you as a legislator, whether, when men contend for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness, it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are acting in the manner best calculated to promote their happiness? who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him of the gift of reason? how does this idea enhance wollstonecraft’s argument? by praising women serving in leadership roles by emphasizing the unhappiness of women servants by criticizing men as intellectually inferior to women by pointing out the legal injustice in the exclusion of women