Of course, this ideal was a double-edged sword: their ostensible fragility – and their assigned role as icons of sexual purity and ignorance – was used to exclude women from influencing outcomes that affected their own destinies.
Naturalmente, dicho ideal era un arma de dos filos: se utilizaba su ostensible fragilidad –y el papel que se les asignaba como iconos de la pureza y la ignorancia sexuales– para excluir a las mujeres de las decisiones que afectaban a su destino.