History
The tale of Delphine LaLaurie
Western civilisation has regarded women as morally superior to men since at least the Middle Ages. Even a cursory review of history shows that this isn’t so with women throughout the ages demonstrating their willingness and capacity to harm others. We know from recent research that queens regnant were more likely to start wars and …
Race Motherhood: Is Woman The Original Human Race? – by Dora B. Montefiore 1920
The following, rather long essay was written in 1920 as a recapitulation of the earlier gynocentric theory presented by Lester F. Ward. The theory, which was openly misandric, proved wildly popular among both feminists and laypersons in this early period of the modern era. Several notable men’s human rights activists, including Ernest B. Bax pushed …
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Ernest B. Bax responds to Lester Ward’s ‘Gynocentric Theory’
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 Tale of Thomas and Mary Reibey
Thomas was an officer on His Majesty’s ship Britannia. Mary was a horse thief. Thomas was a 19 year old junior officer when in 1794 he proposed to 17 year old Mary. Thomas was serving in the employ of the British East India Company at the time and Mary was under a seven year sentence …
Peter III of Russia
History doesn’t remember Peter III of Russia fondly. The grandson of Peter the Great, he’s ridiculed by historians. This is captured effectively by the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica that had this to say about him: Nature had made him mean, the smallpox had made him hideous, and his degraded habits made him loathsome. And Peter had …
Utopianism and Double Standards in Feminist Foremother Mary Wollstonecraft
Editor’s note: Following on the heels of Wollstonecraft’s publication of A Vindication Of The Rights of Woman, 33 year old Thomas Taylor published his own reply titled ‘Vindication Of The Rights Of Brutes’ (1792). In the introduction to Taylor’s book we read the following summary: A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes is an …
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Men Have Become “Chattels” Of Women – The Men’s Review (1948 Article)
We continue the series of Men’s Review excerpts below, with the author discussing how men have become a servant class or mere “chattels” of women. – PW * * * Chattels by Avertir In 1935 the Bishop of Salisbury was reported as saying 16,000 women obtain Separation Orders a year. In the same year, 50,000 …
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The Trend Of The Sexes – The Men’s Review (1948 Article)
We continue the series of Men’s Review excerpts below, with this piece imploring women to extend to men freedom from traditional responsibilities “with the same zeal as women demanded it for themselves.” – PW * * * The Trend Of The Sexes by Rith When we observe the relationship of the sexes in the past, …
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E.B. Bax: Custody Of Children In The Year 1896
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 …
