"Women are stupid"

I have never heard that women are stupid. I don’t know if this is cultural, coming from a long line of strong women.

I should add, because it's important, that I ignored my mother and aunt because I believed the doctrine that women are stupid. It took me years to come round to appreciating what they had to teach me.
(Yeah, I guess I was stupid. Or the doctrine made me stupid.)

Indeed. It's supposed to be feminine to be stupid.

My mother read "Gone with the Wind" and was impressed by how the Southern Belles had to act stupid while behind the scenes they had huge responsabilities (albeit immoral responsabilities).

Sakura, I suspect I am older than you, but I grew up surrounded by people (apart from my mother and aunt) who insisted that men were more intelligent than women. I believed it. The teachers at school repeatedly said there must have been something in the water when we were born because that was the only way to explain how the girls always came top in exams. Oh yes, women might have a sort of soft wisdom, but it was worldly and not logical and possibly even a bit woo so didn’t count. It wasn’t until long after I got my degree, having met some astonishingly bright women along the way, that it dawned on me that all this ‘men are more intelligent than women’ schtick was actually bullshit.
Meanwhile, the 'women are stupid' doctrine had done untold damage to countless
other people, and I don't think I escaped unscathed even now.