Ernest Belfort Bax on feminism’s relation to chivalry
Over 100 years ago E.B. Bax talked of first-wave feminists soliciting, expecting and receiving male chivalry for the benefit of women. Has anything changed?
Over 100 years ago E.B. Bax talked of first-wave feminists soliciting, expecting and receiving male chivalry for the benefit of women. Has anything changed?
Feminism seeks a perpetual increase of both the power and rights of women without any accompanying responsibilities – this isn’t news. However it may surprise readers to learn this scam has been going on for well over 100 years.
Ernest Belfort Bax wrote that early feminists had little understanding of rights and responsibilities
Documents show that feminists controlled the media a century ago
In the following quotes Bax describes ‘Sentimental Feminism’ and ‘Political Feminism’, a distinction having striking similarities to Naomi Wolf’s ‘Victim Feminism’ and ‘Power Feminism’ (coined 80 years after Bax). The main difference is that where Wolf sees Power Feminism as positive and Victim Feminism as negative, Bax described, convincingly, that both polarities of feminism acted corruptly. * * …
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Weakness forfeits its claim to chivalry when it presumes upon that claim and becomes aggressive. ~ E.B. Bax
Bax describes the alternating feminist appeals to differences, and then sameness of the sexes.
The following article titled ‘A Different Interpretation‘ was penned by Ernest Belfort Bax and published in Justice, 18th September 1909, p.10. (letter) * * * DEAR COMRADE, – With reference to Professor Lester Ward’s book reviewed in last week’s “Justice,” and the statements made in it which are apparently regarded by the author as arguments in favour of the …
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The following is an excerpt from Bax’s The Legal Subjection of Men (1896) CUSTODY OF CHILDREN It has always in England been laid down as a fundamental law based on public policy, that the custody of children and their education is a duty incumbent on the father. It is said to be so fundamental that he …
Over 100 years ago E.B. Bax talked of first-wave feminists soliciting, expecting and receiving male chivalry for the benefit of women. Has anything changed?