Sesso debole no ma leggete questo passo (1924) di un libro antifemminista di Wyndham Lewis:
Traditionally women and children are the most helpless and ill-equipped categories of mankind. Up to the present, equality of opportunity has not been achieved, and they are still the most credulous and influenceable of us. It is natural, therefore, that a great political power, interested only in domination and in nothing else, would seize on them as its most readily manipulated tools. By flattery and coercion it would discipline their ignorance and weakness into an organized instrument of social and political domination. As an alternative to the system suggested in the speech quoted above, by which one half of the mass of “those animals” or “imbeciles” is used against the other half, there is that by which the mass of the ill equipped, easily influenced, and credulous can be used to destroy the minority that knows a little more than it is proper that it should know, that is not so easy to fool, therefore, and is not so helpless. The “war” of the lowbrow against the highbrow is a conflict fomented on the same principle.
We live beset with civil wars, in the envenomed and bitterly organized world. Almost any generalization must range against you the legions of this or that zealous social host, daily subjected to press discipline, breathing defiance, whether really affected by your statement or not.