Nietzsche explicitly argues that women should be treated like property, and that the movement for women’s emancipation is a product of the democratic movement and its weak, self-destructive morality. He claims, perhaps not entirely convincingly, that emancipation is bad for women too, as once emancipated they can only approximate the herd man. His argument that women actually lose influence by giving up their positions “as women” also lacks evidence, with the sole example offered being that of Napoleon’s mother, who in fact largely did not control the actions of her son.