Are women morally superior to men?
Women’s real mission was to ‘humanize’ men before men blew up the world. Women in the workforce won’t be more honest, kind, egalitarian, empathic. Some years ago, I was invited by the wife of a well-known writer to sign a women’s peace petition. It made the points such documents usually make: that women, as mothers, caregivers and nurturers, have a special awareness of the precariousness of human life, see through jingoism and cold war rhetoric and would prefer nations to work out their difficulties peacefully so that the military budget could be diverted to schools and hospitals and housing. It had the literary tone such documents usually have, as well–at once superior and plaintive, as if the authors didn’t know whether they were bragging or…
