The Cry of Man to WomanBy C. Gasquoine Hartley(From “The Truth About Woman.”)
By C. Gasquoine Hartley
(From “The Truth About Woman.”)
The cry of man to woman under the patriarchal system has been, and still for the most part is, “Your value in our eyes is your sexuality; for your work we care not.” But mark this! The penalty of this false adjustment has fallen upon men. For women, in their turn, have come to value men first in their capacity as providers for them, caring as little for man’s sex value as men for women’s work-value. From the moment when women had to place the economic considerations in love first, her faculties of discrimination were no more of service for the selection of the fittest man. Here we may find the explanation of the kind of men girls have been willing to marry—old men, the unfit fathers, the diseased.... And it is the race that has suffered.