Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Women have to be pure and respectful.
It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.
If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.