The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.