How would you describe the tone/approach in the text? And why does she have it?

Wollstonecraft’s tone conveys both her own sense of humour but also her anger at the crippling situation that the majority of women were forced into because of both patriarchy and misogyny:

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.