In fact, she claims, they do harm not only to themselves but to the entire civilization: these are not women who can help refine a civilization—a popular eighteenth-century idea—but women who will destroy it.
Hun hævder, at de ikke kun skader sig selv men hele civilisationen: de er ikke kvinder, som kan bidrage til at forædle civilisationen – en populær tanke i 1700-tallet – men kvinder, som vil ødelægge den.