Elizabeth Gould Davis Quote

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."


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,...