“Remember this: The strongest sign of
the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization
of women. It is notable that in Communist nations women are exhorted,
and compelled, to do what has traditionally been men’s work. American
women, some of them, feel triumphant that they have broken down the
‘barricades’ between the work of the sexes. I hope they will still feel
triumphant when some commissar forces a shovel or an axe into their soft
hands and compels them to pound and cut forests and dig ditches. I hope
they will be ‘happy’ when a husband deserts them and they must support
their children and themselves alone. (After all, if a woman must be
‘free’ she shouldn’t object to men being free too, should she?) I hope
they will feel ‘fulfilled’ when they are given no more courtesies due to
their sex and no kindnesses, but are kicked aside on the subway buses
by men, and jostled out of the way by men on busy sidewalks and
elevators…. I hope, when they look in their mirrors, that they will be
pleased to see exhausted, embittered faces, and that they will be
consoled by their paychecks.” ~ Taylor Caldwell, 1970
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