Swift mostly stuck with what women hide about

Swift mostly stuck with what women hide about themselves, but who does not hide
things about themselves? Swift describes Strephon rummaging through Celia’s room,
finding imperfections in everything. He could have been emphasizing how especially
gross this was considering Celia being “sweet and cleanly” in public but actually lives in
filth (Swift 18). No one has a clean living space all day, everyday so I thought his main

theme to be trivial, but how he wrote it and the wit he presented is what made it
interesting to me. Personally, the ideas and rebuttal that Montagu responded with was
more damaging and embarrassing than what Swift wrote. Her backstory was very well
thought out and equally damaging which could be applied to all men.
Swift stuck with the personal hygiene of women and their personal space and
cleanliness. Montagu did not fool around with this, she went where it hurts men the
most, reputation and a shot below the belt with “The fault is not [in] me” referring to his
intimate abilities (Montagu 73). She also explains that the reason he was in the room in
the first place was for paid companionship. She then satirizes Swift’s chief arguments in
his poem about the chamberpot, dirty clothes, and smelly feet being so off putting and
close to him as the reason for his lack of performance. Montagu is trying to display the