Professor Yang Kuo-shu of NTU's psychology department notes that it is a fact that traditional agricultural society was male-centered. But whether the responsibility for this lies with Mencius or the Confucianist culture he represents, is very much open to debate.
台大心理系教授楊國樞指出，傳統農業社會以男子為中心是事實，但責任是否在孟子或孟子代表的儒家文化身上，大有可議。