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Letter to Editor
October 3, 1916
The Day Book
Chicago, Cook County County, Illinois
What is this article about?
The letter critiques superstitious and ignorant views on sex, rejecting claims that men can have feminine minds or that perfect individuals combine femininity and masculinity, emphasizing differences as matters of degree among humans.
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Sex, perhaps, more than any other subject, because of the dense superstition that shrouds it, provokes nonsensical comment. Even by the erudite professor of sociology who has reasoned out a mode of establishing a perfect society and the equally learned physical culturist who sees in dancing or other graceful movement a way to health, strength and beauty, even these generally display the popular ignorance on the subject and consequently perverted logic.
The statement that "man sometimes has a feminine mind and woman sometimes a masculine mind" is the purest nonsense.
The only difference between the minds of men and women also prevails between men or between women, and between all humans and the lower animals. It is a difference in degree or quality, not of kind, and is greater between the highest humans of both sexes and the lowest, than between the lowest humans and the highest beasts.
Similarly the statement of the physical culturist that "the perfect man or woman is made up of femininity and masculinity" is absurd,
Nor is it in the least improved by an
Sex, perhaps, more than any other subject, because of the dense superstition that shrouds it, provokes nonsensical comment. Even by the erudite professor of sociology who has reasoned out a mode of establishing a perfect society and the equally learned physical culturist who sees in dancing or other graceful movement a way to health, strength and beauty, even these generally display the popular ignorance on the subject and consequently perverted logic.
The statement that "man sometimes has a feminine mind and woman sometimes a masculine mind" is the purest nonsense.
The only difference between the minds of men and women also prevails between men or between women, and between all humans and the lower animals. It is a difference in degree or quality, not of kind, and is greater between the highest humans of both sexes and the lowest, than between the lowest humans and the highest beasts.
Similarly the statement of the physical culturist that "the perfect man or woman is made up of femininity and masculinity" is absurd,
Nor is it in the least improved by an
What sub-type of article is it?
Philosophical
Social Critique
What themes does it cover?
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Sex Differences
Gender Minds
Femininity Masculinity
Superstition Ignorance
Mental Degrees
Letter to Editor Details
Main Argument
rejects notions of mixed gender minds and perfect beings combining femininity and masculinity, asserting that mental differences between sexes are differences in degree, not kind, similar to variations among all humans.
Notable Details
Critiques Erudite Professor Of Sociology And Physical Culturist For Displaying Popular Ignorance
Compares Human Mental Differences To Those With Animals