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Please help That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh tide of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? (without fear of punishment). Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals (servants) of your sex

Now that you have read the text, what is the author's purpose in using the word "tyrannical" in this excerpt?

A She is discussing the secondary status of woman in the world at the time
B. She is discussing the natural friendship that exists between the sexes
C. She is comparing the tyranny of power that exists in men at that time and the British govemment.
D Both A and C

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