All the quotations found below date from before the rise of cultural Marxism and related feminist ideologies in the 1960s. This is significant because the now-orthodox narrative of the history between the sexes ("herstory") is a false one. It is fake history. The quotations given here are valuable evidence useful in demonstrating not only that the “official story” is a hoax, but also in assisting us in beginning to rewrite the history of the relations between the sexes – this time truthfully.
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►1904 –
Anonymous Gentlewoman (USA)
As society is made, it is almost impossible for a man to go
the right way about his relations with woman. The system prescribes a certain
attitude. It is the attitude of crawl, salaam, obsequiousness and second
fiddle. If you depart from it by a hair’s breadth your woman become suspicious
of you. If you advise other men to depart from it you get a bad name. Women
stand up for women’s rights and are made the subject of applause, bouquets and
illuminated addresses. The man who dares come out strong for men’s rights
does not breathe. Men do not want him. They are like canaries in cages, afraid
to go out lest the cat get them. Peace at any price is man’s rule of life.
Abroad he will swagger and bluster, and bully. “Nemo me impune lacessit!” he
roars. At home his watchword is ‘‘Blessed are the meek.” Abroad he frowns and
breathes fire; at home he is plain, unvarnished “him.” Abroad he struts, at
home he slinks. Abroad he is very wise, at home he is a little child.—
Gentlewoman.”
►1912 –
Mrs. C. H. Hughston – Suffrage leader
Many an American husband turns over every penny he makes to
the woman he marries, receiving back from her a meager allowance for carfare
and lunches. Perhaps she runs up extra bills; if she does, he struggles meekly
to pay them, and consoles himself with the fact that Mary and the girls look
‘better’n any body in town.’ He breaks down from overwork in his early
maturity, and nobody has anything but pity for his family.
►1916 –
Agnes McHugh – Chicago attorney
"A man jury will not convict a woman murderer in this county,
if the prosecutor is a man. I think this leniency may be traced to the chivalry
latent in every man. The jurors see two or three big strong men sitting at the
prosecutors’ table, and subconsciously feel that these fierce prosecutors are
attacking the frail, pretty woman in the prisoner’s chair. Their instinct is to
defend her. Perhaps their pity would not be stirred so profoundly if a woman
was in the prosecutor’s chair. I believe the leniency of juries with feminine
slayers is responsible for the wave of ‘affinity crimes’ sweeping Chicago. The
woman criminal will receive justice only when there’s a woman in court to
prosecute her. We demand justice for women — not maudlin sympathy or leniency."
►1919 – Dorothy Dix –
journalist, “the world’s most highly paid woman writer”
"Among my acquaintances is a piteous
old man, who is dying of a broken heart because his wife has alienated the
affections of his only child from him.
This father belongs in the ranks of those who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brows. Life has been hard to him, but the one rose
that has bloomed along his arid pathway has seen his little daughter, and he
has found no toil too hard to keep her soft and safe, no sacrifices too great
to make to give her a fine education.
While the girl was little she was a joy to him as she
cuddled in his arms and pressed her rosy little cheek to his worn one, but as
she has grown older her mother has weaned her away from her father and taught
her to look with contempt upon him, so that now she treats him with coldness
and neglect, and pays him not so much attention as she would to a faithful old
workhorse.
And it has turned the father’s world to dust and ashes.
One would think that a woman who turns her children
against their father and robs him of their love must be a fiend incarnate. She
would be if she committed the crime deliberately, but she does it without
realizing what a terrible thing she is doing, or how far-reaching and
disastrous are its consequences.
For many other women are guilty of this same offense. Occasionally a mother weans her children away from their father through a morbid jealousy. She wants to be all in all to them. She cannot bear for them to love anyone else, not even their father, as well as they love her. She is filled with torturing fear that they may even prefer their father to her, as children often do if left to follow unhampered their own impulses."
[Dorothy Dix, “Teaching Children to Despise Father.” syndicated (Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.), Sep. 14, 1919, part III, p. 28] For many other women are guilty of this same offense. Occasionally a mother weans her children away from their father through a morbid jealousy. She wants to be all in all to them. She cannot bear for them to love anyone else, not even their father, as well as they love her. She is filled with torturing fear that they may even prefer their father to her, as children often do if left to follow unhampered their own impulses."
►1919 – Hattie Barnett – Atlanta, Georgia’s first female
detective
“Women must be barred from criminal trials in Fulton county.
… The courtroom of the average murder trial is merely the training school where
wives learn the tricks used by other women in killing their husbands, and then
go home, talk them over with their neighbors and then use said tricks in
ridding themselves of their husbands. … Women of this class brought heir
launches and spent the day, often bringing their lunches and spent the day,
often bringing their children of various ages with them. If I have to go to the
legislature, I shall get morbid women barred from such trials,” she completed.”
►1921 – Judge Rhea M Whitehead – Presiding member of the Superior Court of Seattle
“A husband is going to get a square deal in my court. Too
many men are convicted on sobby tales of wives!”
►1921 –
Alice Robertson – U. S. House of Representatives (Oklahoma)
“Women who murder get off too easy. They’re not judged
according to the same standards as men who murder, but you don’t hear the
suffragists demanding equal rights for the men, do you? No the suffragists want
equal rights for women with special privileges.”
►1922 –
Judge Florence E. Allen – First Criminal Court Judge, in 1922 Elected to Ohio
Supreme Court
“Men have always sit on juries and men instinctively
shrink from holding women strictly accountable for their misdeeds. Now that
women sit on juries I expect the percentage of convictions in cases of women to
be greater. Women are more clever than men in arousing sympathy. I had on a
woman, a hardened criminal, stage a terrific fainting spell in my courtroom
after the jury found her guilty. It took four men to carry her to jail. She
continued having these spells, so long that I had to defer pronouncing sentence.
Finally I sent her word that the longer she acted so, the longer she would be
in jail. Within a few moments she sent up word that, she would be good and
received her sentence meekly, with no trace of feeling”
►1927 – Helen Rowland – journalist
“All that the modern girl asks of man is that he treat her
with tenderness and chivalry – and the same time permit her to drive the car,
run the house, swim the Channel and beat him at golf and tennis.
That he acknowledge her as his
economic equal – and then marry her and pay all her bills for the rest of his
life.
That he join her in petting parties
and take her to night-club orgies – and, at the same time, respect her, love
her truly, and regard her kisses as a romantic adventure or a 'sacred'
privilege.
… That he permit her to go around
almost as barely clothed as a savage and as gaudily decked out as a Hottentot –
and at the same time reverently keep on his coat and take off his hat in her
presence, as though she were a civilized woman.
That he allow her to make his
social rules, choose his friends and censor his clothes – and at the same time
think of her as a cute, lovable, little thing to be 'taken care of' – God’s
greatest Gift to Man!
That’s positively ALL! And yet, men
are becoming so woman-shy, that it is getting harder to lure a man into
marriage than it is to get a golfer into church!”
►1927 – Fannie Hurst – writer
Married
women “have become parasites and consumers instead of producers, taking no
share in their husbands’ burdens, and are worse chattels than their
grandmothers,” Miss Hurst said. “The vast army of women seeking divorce are
mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love – surely one of the
most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.”
►1927 –
Elsie Marlowe – journalist
Sally thinks she’s a dear, sweet home girl. She’s not. She’s
the meanest kind of a slacker and cheat. She let a man build his faith on her.
She went with him into a Going Business. She tied up all he had to give of
youth and ambition and love. And then, because she was too stingy of soul to do
her share, she took her children and left him bankrupt of faith or hope. Some
day Sally is going to hear how Ed is “carrying on” and she’s going to be
perfectly furious and divorce him and feel frightfully abused if he won’t give
her alimony. Would you give an absconding cashier heavy alimony? For that’s
what Sally is!
►1927 – Bessie Cooley –
anti-alimony activist, Chicago (Alimony Club of Illinois)
“Down
with alimony gold-digging. Millions for defense, but not one cent for alimony.”
►1928 – Faith Baldwin – novelist
“The rising tide of
divorce has brought us a new industry, the ultimate refinement of golddigging,
the perfection of blackmail within the law—marriage for alimony,” said Faith
Baldwin, the well-known writer. “Women who do not want husbands or children have
found a joker in our marriage laws by which they can establish themselves
comfortably for life; free, respectable, rich, safe—without personal cost or
sacrifice.
There
are thousands and thousands of women who are being supported by men to whom
they are no longer wives. There is no doubt that this business of alimony is
getting to be a serious menace, it may be ail right when a man has plenty of
money. To pay a former wife a few thousand dollars in alimony may mean nothing
to him. But, on the other hand, just consider how many men are forced to pay
alimony who cannot afford it. You will find in the majority of cases that there
is no good reason why they should pay it, either. The women are well able to
take care of themselves. If they did not lack pride and self-respect, they
would not accept money from men who no longer mean anything to them.”
►1929 – Dorothy Dix – journalist, “the world’s most
highly paid woman writer”
I
often wonder that the modern woman does not perceive that she is killing the
goose that lays the golden egg by her attitude toward men. By which I mean to
say that it is women themselves who are destroying the things that they value
most in life. It is women’s hands that are tearing to tatters the chiffons of
romance and sentiment and idealism in which men have always clothed them. It is
women who are stifling tenderness and slaying chivalry in the hearts of men. It
is women who are doing away with all the graces and sweetnesses that made charm
in the relationship between men and women and that incidentally lured men into
matrimony.
For women are
making men afraid of them and what they will do to them and that makes men cold and cautious in dealing with the fair
sex. Even Romeo watches his step and
counts the calories in his sweet talk
when he keeps a date with Juliet nowadays.
Women don’t like this. They complain bitterly that there
are no impassioned lovers. They say that young men are so afraid they may
compromise themselves by their attentions to a girl that ten minutes alter
meeting her they serve notice on her that they have no intention of marrying
and that even one’s fiance’s letters read like a communication about the state
of the stock market instead of being an outpouring of burning affection. …
Worse
still, women are keeping men from marrying by demanding so much alimony that it
makes matrimony not only a gamble in happiness but the most risky financial
speculation they can engage in.
Under the present laws a man can marry a girl who makes no
effort in any way to be a good wife. She can refuse to keep house, refuse to
bear children She can be lazy, extravagant, high-tempered, nagging and make his
life a torment to him, yet she can force him to support her as long as he
lives. And, such being the case, it is not strange that prudent men are shying
of more and more from the altar.
►1931 – Dorothy Dix - journalist, “the world’s most highly paid
woman writer”
Still another reason
why men do not marry is because of their fear of alimony. Certainly the
gold-digging ladles, who make a man pay and pay and pay as long as he lives for
the mistake he made in marrying one of them, are doing a lot to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg. For they have made marriage a hazardous
adventure that causes men to get cold feet even to think about and that causes
the prudent to avoid the altar.
►1931 – Ruth Brown Reed – writer
“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?”
►1933 – Dorothy Dix – journalist, “the world’s most highly paid
woman writer”
There is nothing in our
alleged modern civilization that is so disgraceful as the fact that divorce has
become just as much a racket among unprincipled women as bootlegging has among
men. A large class of women as bootlegging has among them. A large class of
women as bootlegging has among them. A large class of women have made a gift
wrecking homes and breaking up men’s lives. They enter into the most binding of
all human contracts with no intention whatever of fulfilling it. They perjure
their souls without even a qualm of conscience by taking upon their lips the
most solemn of all oaths that they do not even mean to keep.
►1934 –
Mrs. Rose Fox – activist, New York Alimony Club
I joined this club primarily because I wanted to see justice
done, and I feel that that very often a woman can attack her own sex with more
effect than can a man. I am intensely against the ‘woman chiseler’ who marries
not for a home and a husband, but for alimony and a good time at some decent
man’s expense.
►1936 – Dorothy Dix – journalist, “the world’s most
highly paid woman writer”
One of the most
monstrously unfair thing in the world is the way women treat their husbands
about their children. They demand that their husbands shall slave to support
their children and deny themselves ease and luxury in order that their children
may go to high-priced colleges, and have expensive cars and clothes, but that
ends their conception of a father’s relationship to his children. He is just a biological
and financial necessity and, having served his purpose, he goes into the
scrapheap like any other useless piece of junk. They don’t even think of his
having any right to a part of the children, or any feeling about them.
How
women ever got the idea that mothers alone love their children and that fathers
have no more affection for their offspring than an alley cat has for his, no
one knows, but that they do hold to this theory is amply proven by the
ruthlessness with which they separate their children from their fathers when
they happen to want to divorce their husbands.
►1936 –
Doris Blake – journalist, advice columnist
Once in a while one meets a mother with sufficient sense of
fairness to realize that because she can’t get along with her child’s father,
this constitutes no reason why there should not be devotion between the father
and child. Ordinarily, however, one finds the feminine parent doing everything
in her power to poison the child’s mind against the other parent. The mind
poisoning goes on at a vicious rate when father and mother have come to the
parting of ways.
And it goes on in ratio to the
mother’s own fault in the domestic upheaval. Women have a remarkable penchant
for absolving themselves from every particle of blame in the event of domestic
strife. Regrettably, when the man has taken all he can stand and departs,
sympathy is on the woman’s side, no matter what her status as a wife and
parent.
►1937 –
Kathleen Norris – novelist, journalist
The alimony racket is a definite livelihood for thousands of
women. And until men do something about it it will flourish like a green bay
tree.
►1937 –
Maxine Garrison – journalist
Women who marry that they may divorce for money are
high-class chiselers who have so far got off scot-free. It’s an old con game
with streamline trimmings, and even if the men are dumb enough to fall for it,
the women are still responsible for it as they who put over the idealistic and
romanticized picture of womanhood which still makes a man believe that the
little woman really does want a vine-covered cottage when she says, “Yes.” It’s
all too easy these days for a woman to reason along these lines when she is
momentarily bored or angry, “Why should I go on putting up with this guy? A
divorce, with alimony to take care of the money problem, and I can live my own
life as I please.”
►1937 – Lois Maddox Miller – journalist
Few people realize how
easy it is to have a man thrown into jail for non-payment of money owed. A
person who owes as little as $5 may be put behind the bars in New York City
even before being tried and found guilty of not paying a debt. …
But let
me tell you there’s nothing funny ahead for the man who is escorted to a county
jail to serve three months or so just because he is unable to beg, borrow or
steal enough money, to satisfy (temporarily, at least) some hysterical or
vindictive woman who is his former spouse. If he has a job, he’ll probably lose
it; if he has a business, it will probably go to pieces in his absence. He
can’t earn any money while he is in jail, so when he is released three months
later he will be broke” and jobless, and that Ol’ Debbil Alimony will catch up
with him so fast that it is almost a sure-thing bet that his ex-wife will have
him back behind the bars in no time.
►1937 – Spring
Byington – actress, anti-alimony activist
“Alimony has become a racket. …After all, the theory of
alimony is to protect a woman who has relinquished her ability to support
herself. She deserves this protection. But like many other laws that were well
conceived, the alimony law is being abused. It not only is providing thousands
of undeserving ex-wives with a comfortable living, but it has been twisted into
a weapon by which women vent their hatred on the men they once loved.”
►1939 – Dorothy Dix – journalist, “the world’s most highly paid woman writer”
As for alimony, one of the profound mysteries of the world
is why men, who make the laws, have not long ago done away with the cruel and
unjust and medieval status that govern the whole subject of divorce and under
which they suffer, whenever they find it impossible to live with their wives,
or their wives get tired of living with them.
That many women marry for the sole purpose of getting
divorces a matter of common knowledge. The women who practice this hold-up game
marry men they don’t love. They don’t make an effort to get along with
them, or do their duty as wives in any respect, and in the course of a year or
two they pick a quarrel and fly to Reno.
Then their poor dupes have to pay them enough money to
live on luxuriously ever after Why should this be possible? Why should a man
have to spend the remainder of his life supporting a woman who has made his
life a hell on earth? Why should a first husband have to go on supporting his
former wife and her second husband? Why should a poor fellow who can't pay his
alimony be put in jail where he can't make any money? My own idea is that no
young and able-bodied woman without children should ever be given a nickel of
alimony. She took her chances on marriage just as the man did, and she should
be enough of a sport to be a good loser.
►1944 –
Dorothy Dix – journalist, “the world’s most highly paid woman writer”
And another, and a bitter and a shameful reason, why women
ask for divorces oftener than men is because they have found out how profitable
is the alimony racket and how easily it can be worked by any pretty woman.
Thousands of women marry men for whom they have no affection, and with whom
they have no intention of living, just because a marriage license delivers
their husbands into their hands as the victims of the lowest holdup game ever
practiced.
►1946 – Kathleen Norris – novelist, journalist
It made me consider afresh what I often have thought of
alimony; that alimony is essentially unfair, and that men who make and change
laws so easily, are rather stupid that they don’t regularize this one. The
childless woman I quote above was about 28. It is possible that “he,” whoever
he is, will be paying her $6,000 a year for more than 40 years. A quarter of a
million dollars for the 24 months she spent in disillusioning him and breaking
his heart. Such a woman, if I judged her rightly, will not re-marry while this
golden river is rolling in. She will have her love affairs and her freedom; she
will feel herself infinitely superior to the quiet girl who sticks to her
bargain, keeps her man happy and secure, and raises children.
►1951 –
Mrs. Walter Ferguson – journalist
After World War I, which opened up new business horizons to
multitudes of women, these laws became a legal device for picking husbands’
pockets. Something must be worked out from the present hodge-podge of laws to
protect children, and at the same time prevent the hard-boiled sisterhood from
using marriage as a high-jacking scheme. … Men and women must be equally
responsible for the support of their children – as they have always been. Any
effort on the part of either to shun that duty should be punished severely. But
certainly, society can no longer tolerate the parasitic woman.
►1953 –
Doris Blake – journalist, advice columnist
From a letter to Doris
Blake: “It is painful to watch what she is doing to her children in their
relationship with their dad. It is obvious to everyone that he is crazy about
his boy and girl. He tries to visit them on every possible occasion. But if she
keeps on telling them what a heel their dad is and relaying to the young
innocents what a horror he was to live with, she may succeed in alienating them
from him entirely. That isn’t all.
“The little girl has been saying things about men being big
brutes, etc., which never should be heard out of a child’s mouth. I call it
poisoning the youngster’s mind.”
From
Doris Blake’s reply: “It is a monstrous mother, indeed, who would corrupt a
girl-child with horror tales in general. After all, where marriage fails, the
mother has a share in the responsibility.”
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