So I'm re reading Delusions of Gender at the moment to try and improve my discussions around "lady brains" and came across this quote. Just struck me as quite chillingly prescient in the current climate.
Let the … women carry on their crusade for a generation or two more; let men meet women as competitors for ‘economic independence’ and in the hard fight of wringing a living from the world; let men meet women in the fierce struggle of political life; let the screeching rowdyism of the militant suffragettes go on and grow worse; but, above all, let the feminist programme of greater sex liberty for women, with its demolition of wifehood and the home, be carried through; then will women indeed find that the knightliness and chivalry of gentlemen have vanished, and in their stead will arise a rough male power that will place women where it chooses. —William T. Sedgwick, professor of biology and public health at MIT (1914)
Ach, I'm probably projecting things onto this but it's been a shitty week of dealing with eye rolls and (not so) veiled insinuations to just be "nice" or "kind" from various people.