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
Nothing less should satisfy us; for we shall always remember that it was
the man who possesses merely courage and proficiency at sport that is
responsible not only for all our present muddle, but also for Feminism.
Here again, therefore, we shall recast our values, and, hard as it may
seem, discipline ourselves to a new outlook. Nothing else can save the
world and nothing else can put woman back in her place—which is only
another way of saving the world. Every other remedy is quackery. The
highest type of this kind of manly man is the ruler who gives us a new
order and a new goal; while even the lowest type is the husband who
fills a woman’s life and whom she finds it a joy to obey and no
indignity, no hardship to serve. Without this kind of man in large
numbers in our midst, the world cannot fail to go hopelessly astray, and
it will be our principal object henceforth to discover not only how he
can be restored to us, but how it is that, during the last hundred
years, we have failed to produce him in England. This is the only kind
of scientific research that can possibly be fruitful of good results at
the present juncture, and it is the first direction in which we shall
turn our remaining energy. Nor need we be deterred by the journalistic
scoffers who will tell us that we are in search of that mythical monster
the Superman, for we have no such highfalutin’ schemes. The men we wish
to rear again have already been reared once before in these islands, and
history records their lives. They are not a magic fantasy, but a
possible reality. They are not demi-gods, but mortals. And we ourselves,
who claim that they are indispensable for the salvation of modern
humanity, do not hope for them as a race of Supermen, but merely as the
leaders of a Masculine Renaissance.
With regard to the world these leaders will create, and to the position
of women in that world, while we cannot safely foretell what they will
do, we venture to suggest the following:
We may expect a total and complete exposure of the shallowness,
impracticability, and danger to national survival of Democracy as we now
understand it, and therefore the evanescence of democratic forms of
government. The great suffering and chaos to which such forms of
government lead will probably leave a deep impression upon the soul of
humanity, and this impression will help the leaders of the Masculine
Renaissance to remodel the national life without having recourse to the
discredited and preposterous vote.
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