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[Donna Jamshidnejad]

I agree that by current standards Liu Xiang's standards for women are unfair. However, I also find it unfair to apply the standards written thousands of years ago to today. I'm unsure if anyone tries to embody the Confucian ideology to this degree today. As a history teacher, I always find it necessary to contextualize for students by comparing different regions within the same time period. Women in many cultures (Europe, most of Asia, some parts of Africa) were defined by their relationship to men.