All this, of course, is hocus-pocus, and the judicious are not
deceived by it for an instant. What these virtuous bel dames actually
desire in their hearts is not that the male be reduced to chemical
purity, but that the franchise of dalliance be extended to themselves.
The most elementary acquaintance with Freudian psychology
exposes their secret animus. Unable to ensnare males under the
present system, or at all events, unable to ensnare males sufficiently
appetizing to arouse the envy of other women, they leap to the
theory that it would be easier if the rules were less exacting.
This theory exposes their deficiency in the chief character of their
sex: accurate observation. The fact is that, even if they possessed
the freedom that men are supposed to possess, they would still find
it difficult to achieve their ambition, for the average man, whatever
his stupidity, is at least keen enough in judgment to prefer a single
wink from a genuinely attractive woman to the last delirious favours
of the typical suffragette. Thus the theory of the whoopers and
snorters of the cause, in its esoteric as well as in its public aspect, is
unsound. They are simply women who, in their tastes and
processes of mind, are two-thirds men, and the fact explains their
failure to achieve presentable husbands, or even consolatory
betrayal, quite as effectively as it explains the ready credence they
give to political an philosophical absurdities.




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