Word: anti-feminist
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Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
...whole episode gave newsreaders this thought: why might anti-feminist Miss Butler not find in Mrs. Reporter Adams an excellent example of the kind of unsex-conscious industry she would like to see women exhibit in politics? Scarcely any metropolitan newspaper today is without women on its staff; not only as editrixes of sob columns, advice to the socially incompetent, fashion pages and society notes, but also as literary and dramatic critics, cartoonists, humorists and "straight" news reporters like Mrs. Reporter Adams. These daughters of journalism ask no favors and receive none because they happen to wear skirts instead...
...personalities, take upon themselves all the characteristics of their narrow fields and rise above them to give a very fair performance. There is a retired divorce court judge, a bachelor of eighty-one, at an age when foolishness is characteristic and wisdom remarkably forthcoming. There is the host, an anti-feminist who of course gets caught, and who ought really to have known better at his age. There is the bachelor, who was jilted thirty years ago, and the married man of fifty who was happy until he quarreled with his wife over a coffee bean. They all wrangle without...
...lest this editorial be taken as an outcropping of an anti-feminist movement at Harvard, the CRIMSON hastens to propose: "The ladies! We're very fond of them--at times...
...only other member of the party known to be present was Lord Hugh Cecil (Lord Robert's brother), dubbed by Lady Astor " our leading medievalist" on account of his anti-feminist attitude. Said Lord Hugh...