Lysistrata : $b or, Woman's future and future womanLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Lysistrata : $b or, Woman's future and future woman
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Women; Women -- Social and moral questions
The hostility to man and the jealousy of happy and passionate youth,
felt by all disaffected women, whether spinsters or wives, is sure to
lead to every effort being made to lure girls more and more from bodily
happiness. We can, therefore, expect an increasing emancipation of girls
and women from domestic arts and duties, together with an aggravation of
our present vices regarding foods. This will be accompanied by the
intensive manufacture of every kind of condensed, preserved, compressed,
and synthetic food, with a corresponding multiplication of aids to
minimize trouble in food-preparation. The ideal will be a standardized
and complete food, containing its own correctives for failing digestion,
to be obtained probably in tabloid form, and requiring no further
preparation whatsoever. Ultimately, there can be little doubt that this
form of food will be discovered, and may possibly become the product of
a special Government Department. Meanwhile, the human system will have
undergone years of painful attempted adaptation to increasingly bad
food-conditions, and acute indigestion, with repeated intestinal
operations, will probably have become as common as dental caries and
tooth-extraction are to-day.
The tendency as regards men will be to rear ever larger numbers of them
along the lines already indicated by modern taste—that is to say, their
manliness will be limited more and more to military courage and
proficiency at games. Thus, while they will prove increasingly harmless
and amenable to female rule—as Aristotle said such men always would—they
will be even more besotted, more lacking in mastery, will-power and
understanding, more feeble as lovers, and more contemptible than the men
of to-day.
We can expect an increasing assertion of the rights of females in every
branch of industry, commerce, and the professions, accompanied by such a
multiplication of ready workers that competition between the sexes will
become acute. The first moment of violent strain will occur when women
employers and women labour-leaders, both working under Feminist
guidance, appropriate certain industries wholly to female labour. This
will be accompanied by a vast extension of an idea already
materialized—the female bank, that is to say, financial houses and
interests devoted entirely to the women’s cause. Epicene organizations
and staffs will then tend to disappear, and soon the national industry
will be divided into two sections, each of which will be conducted by
and for one sex only, and in which the most poorly paid workers will
belong to the other sex. These two sections will confront each other
jealously like two competing nations, and, while each will try to
encroach on the domain and wealth of the other, it will also try to
compass the other’s failure.
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