The ancients didn't bully me, and women were hard to raise! ! what's the meaning

It means: the elder is honest and didn't lie to me. An immoral woman like a villain and a sinister and despicable woman are the most difficult to get along with. Women here don't mean all women, but those who have no morality.

Source: Yang Huo, Chapter 17 of The Analects of Confucius.

Confucius said, "Only women are hard to raise. If you are near, you will feel inferior, and if you are far away, you will complain. "

Confucius said: "Women who are as immoral as villains are the most difficult to get along with those insidious and despicable people. When he is close to him, he doesn't know how to be humble and polite to others. When others alienate him, he has resentment. "

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Appreciate:

"Women are the only villains who don't support themselves" is regarded as a classic discourse of Confucius' disrespect for women, and it has also been defended. They say that the woman in this sentence means "you" in another sense, and the villain means "zi", but the real translation is overlapping. Confucius repeated it, just like swearing. Confucius, a scholar, can't speak straight and swear. It doesn't make sense.

In fact, compared with reality, there is nothing to make a fuss about this sentence of Confucius. He just felt Confucius as a man for a moment, which means it is difficult to get along with the opposite sex and inferior people, and there is not much profound discussion.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Only women are difficult to raise.