Two Conflicting Conceptions of Feminine Dignity - Home Economics, F Roger Devlin

The high standing of women in our civilization not only long predates feminist ideology but is logically incompatible with it. To understand why, one needs to keep two points in mind:  1. women’s traditional status was linked to behavioral expectations—fulfilling the duties of their station; and  2. it assumed qualitative differences and complementarity – rather than “fair” competition between the sexes. ... As long as cases of female adultery were few enough, they could be passed off to men as freaks of nature ... on the other hand, wives in their millions act upon the feminist plan of “liberation,” walk out on their husbands, separate them from their children, bankrupt them in divorce court, and shack up with other men, that system breaks down. That is where we are today.