Table 5 Proverbs representing women as a symbol of immaturity and foolishness.

From: Ideological representations of women in Jordanian folk proverbs from the perspective of cultural semiotics

شور المَرة الصايب يجيب سبع مصايب

Women’s advice, even if it is right, brings calamities.

اسمع للمرأة ولا تؤخذ برأيها

Listen to the woman, but do not take her opinion

شاوروهن وأخلفوا شورهنْ

Consult them (the women) and violate their advice

النسوان ناقصات عقل و دين

Women are deficient in reason and religion

المرأة بنصف عقل

Woman is with half of a brain

عقل المره عقل جاجه

The women’s barin is the same as a hen’s brain

طويلة و هبيله

Tall and stupid

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