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A servant will avoid ever causing offence to his master. Should he wish to ever adventure a criticism it will only be couched in the most circumspect terms to avoid causing offence. Should a servant be so bold as to do otherwise, the master will be stunned by the impertinence and become outraged. The parallels between husband/wife, man/woman are obvious: a man will walk on eggshells with a woman, a woman will have no difficulty with criticising him.

This is not a typical 'woman' thing. A woman will not act outraged towards truth and criticism if she submits herself as the servant in any power dynamic, i.e a boss at work can criticise her work, a gay model agent can insult her appearance if she tries to become a model. She won't dare act the outraged harpy in these circumstances. She may only do so if she feels there's some chance to flip the power dynamic (public mob support).

Likewise if a husband criticised his wife in 1700, she wouldn't dare act outraged, for the same reason most children won't today: they will be disciplined as the inferior in the power relationship. And she would rarely have the gall to criticise him, though she might do so sometimes to test the power dynamics, again the same as how children do with their parents today.