Not wanting to be girls they don’t want to be tender, submissive, peaceloving as good women are. “Who wants to be a girl?” And that’s the point not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, power. “Aw, that’s girl’s stuff!” snorts our young comics reader. But it’s sissified, according to exclusively masculine rules, to be tender, loving, affectionate, and alluring.
The most important ingredient in the human happiness recipe still is missing-love. Suppose your child’s ideal becomes a superman who uses his extraordinary power to help the weak. “female superhero, Marston insisted, was the best answer to the critics, since “the comics’ worst offense was their bloodcurdling masculinity.” He explained, A male hero, at best, lacks the qualities of maternal love and tenderness which are as essential to a normal child as the breath of life.
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