«Wantonly» is perhaps not the most accurate term at least in the context of hiragana. It evolved as a writing script for women and used exclusively by women and

«Wantonly» is perhaps not the most accurate term at least in the context of hiragana. It evolved as a writing script for women and used exclusively by women and by women only due to the Japanese women having been denied education in Japan at the time and having been considered too inferior to learn kanji. The men scoffed at hiragana for many centuries as something relegated to the «crazy» women writing love letters and expressing «lowly» emotions in a correspondence with each other. The Japanese men would only write using kanji. Eastern Asian mysoginy has a pretty rich history that has even found its reflection in a writing system.