The fraud of feminism

<p>By Modern Feminism I understand a certain attitude of mind towards the female sex. This attitude of mind is often self-contradictory and illogical. While on the one hand it will claim on the ground of the intellectual and moral equality of women with men the concession of female suffrage and commonly in addition thereto the admission of women to all professions</p><p>offices and functions of public life; on the other it will strenuously champion the preservation and intensification of the privileges and immunities before the law criminal and civil in favour of women which have grown up in the course of the nineteenth century. The above attitude with all its inconsistencies has at its back a strong sex-conscious party or sex union as we may term it among women and a floating mass of inconsequent slushy sentiment among men. There is more than one popular prejudice which obscures the meaning and significance of Modern Feminism with many people. There is a common theory for instance based upon what really obtained to some extent before the prevalence of Modern Feminism that in any case of antagonism between the two sexes women always take the man's side against the woman. Now this theory if it ever represented the true state of the case has long ceased to do so.</p>