In the "Rights of Men", Wollstonecraft challenges Burke's rhetoric as much as, or more, than his political theory. She begins by redefining the "sublime" and the "beautiful", terms he had established in his "Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful". While Burke associates the beautiful with weakness and femininity, and the sublime with strength and masculinity, Wollstonecraft writes, "for truth, in morals, has ever appeared to me the essence of the sublime; and, in taste, simplicity the only criterion of the beautiful." With this sentence, she calls into question Burke's gendered definitions; convinced that they are harmful, she argues later in the "Rights of Men":