The censorship of historical knowledge of the huge and long-lived national scandal surrounding The Alimony Racket during the 1920s and 1930s in the United States is one of the most pernicious violations of historical truth that has been perpetrated by the university-based “gender studies” industry. Women writers in great numbers were among the racket’s most vociferous critics. It is no wonder that students are not permitted to know about this history when such historical voices of women as Ruth Brown Reed’s might, if allowed to be heard, undermine the false (and now orthodox) narrative that is “herstory.”
Following
is the full text of a brief newspaper article from 1931 that quotes from a
longer magazine article on alimony by Ruth Brown Reed.
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MEN’S
RIGHTS.
Quoted
from an article by Ruth Brown Reed in the Outlook:
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“The
alimony racket has become the great woman’s industry. A sobbing pretty woman
before the court — and what chance has the husband? In many cases the amount of
alimony is so large in proportion to the man’s earnings that it completely
nullifies any chance of happiness or of another marriage. And why—one cannot
help but ask—should a divorced man be denied the right to a normal family life?
“Under
the present system the man must keep his nose the grindstone for the rest of
his life, so that a woman who “no longer” contributes one iota to his comfort
and well-being can lead a soft and unharassed life. Where there are children or
where the woman is old or physically incapacitated for work, there is no
question of the man’s ‘obligation.’”
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So
here is a new matrimonial problem, and a new, note in the gospel of feminism.
If there is anything in the principle of
eternal rights between the sexes, seem patently violated m many cases.
The best assurance of ultimate justice to men is that women themselves are
beginning to plead for men’s rights,
as men formerly did for women’s rights.
[“Men’s
Rights.” The Titusville Herald (Pa.), Jun. 4, 1931, p. 4]
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NOTE:
The Outlook and The Independent were major New York weekly magazines founded in the
19th century which eventually consolidated.
Source
of this Titusville Herald article: Ruth Brown Reed, “Alimony for Men!” The Outlook and The Independent, Vol. 158, No. 1, May 6, 1931, p. 14]
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