One writer claimed that women would be physiologically damaged if they got the vote because their brain would grow larger and heavier. Women would subsequently lose their unique feminine mannerisms and features. Men also used the natural division between the sexes as the justification for opposition to women s education. It was considered a great danger to force the intellect of women beyond what their physical anatomies could possibly bear. Today s antifeminist argument is very similar.
Biology is still destiny, and women s presumed natural function is to produce children.
Feminists have tricked women into abandoning marriage and children, according to contemporary antifeminists. Today s antifeminists also rely on a strange reading of anthropological studies. Because men have historically oppressed women in most cultures, there must be something inevitable about patriarchy, according to this rationale. Another group of men has been less distressed about women s increased power than with men s reduced significance. They mourn the disappearance of real men from our society.