Talk:Gaston/@comment-17971101-20150119232335/@comment-1672596-20150129013345

I wouldn't necessarily say Gaston didn't want women to think so much as he didn't want ANYONE to think at all (based on his acknowledging LeFou's claim that thinking was "a dangerous pastime."), man or woman.

And quite frankly, after learning about how genuinely terrible philosophy is and the damages it wrought (look at Rousseau and Voltaire's philosophies, and how that resulted in the French Revolution with them implementing their works to a horrifying degree. That's also not getting into Sartre's Existential branch of philosophy), as much as I hate Gaston's guts, I actually am forced to agree with him on that aspect. Maybe if it weren't for philosophy and thinking (remember, it wasn't just Rousseau's emotionism that was promoted during the Revolution, but also Voltaire's "human reason"), we wouldn't have a French Revolution, and by extension Communism (as Karl Marx was directly inspired by the events of the Reign of Terror to such an extent that he actually intended to re-enact that bloodbath, at the very least, and at worse wanted to actually have the people's vengeance and destructive potential exceed even that of the Reign of Terror.).