With charity toward none : a fond look at misanthropy by King Florence

Author:King, Florence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Charity
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 1993-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

WITH CHARITY TOWARD NONE

My salute shall sweep all the stars away From the blue threshold. One thing without stain, Unspotted from the world, in spite of doom Mine own — my white plume.

MS.-ANTHROPES

"Female misanthrope" is an oxymoron. Women are philanthropists in the original sense of the word, before money got involved in it. Despite a quarter century of feminism, people who deal with female raw emotions, from counselors of battered wives to teachers of karate, report that women still say, "I can't get angry enough."

One would expect more women to become misanthropic now that they are hardly ever alone. At least the traditional housewife of the feminine-mystique era had the house to herself for a few hours each day, but today's beset Having It Alls lack even that. Yet when women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one's own" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women, being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

Women meet hatred with salvos of bigger and better niceness

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