To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.


The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971). "Masculist" is a coined word meant to correlate grammatically with "feminist."

Elizabeth Gould Davis Quotes

To the masculists of both sexes, femininity implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,...

To the masculists of both sexes, femininity implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,...

To the masculists of both sexes, femininity implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,...

To the masculists of both sexes, femininity implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,...