The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-14
ON WOMEN
BY William Marion Reedy.

Is that women seem never to be OF
to have been offended by their bit
terest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ant
Nietzsche? Indeed, women take
great delight in the writings of these
two men who proclaim the sex thu
chief agent of Evil. Why? At once
comes to mind:
A dog, a woman, q hickory tree,
The more you beat 'em the better they be
Woman likes the strong !uan, the
compeller; that's why she likes the
man in military and naval uniform
she loves to worship more than to be
worshiped-and all that tommy rot
I think, so far as 1 am entitled tc
think on such a trinity of i%nscruta'
bitities as Nietzsche, Schopenhauel
and Woman, that women are amused
by the philosophers named. Who is
more concerned with woman than the
man who denounces and damns her?
There was st. Anthony-he went into
the desert to escape woman and 10!
he brought her with him. What Is
all the bravery of the philosophers
named against women? Nothing but
fear of them. Even so the English
lied about Napoleon because they
were so afraid of him that they used
his name to quiet squalling babies
don't think it possible to hate any
one or anything that we do not fear.
I don't think that we can fear and
love any one at the same time-pace
the theologasters and the hymnoso-
phists. What are Nietzsche and
Schopenhauer saying all the time?
BE brave! Brace up! Whistle
through. the graveyard! Beware OF
women" wide Weller, Sr., on
~"Vidd&-s.") Now, brave men don't
have to be adjured to be brave, and
when they are so adjured, the ad-
Juror is usually playing castanets
with his knees. Schopenhauer and
Nietzsche rail and Ave at women,
but they are victims Of the succubus,
They can't get her out of their minds
and are afraid to take her into their
hearts. No woman can conceive a
higher expression of affection than:
Il love you-drat you'll" Show me
a misogymist and III show you a
man with some woman's scornful OF
tender face Photographed upon his
heart Women read Nietzsche and
Schopenhauer and don't say anything
just laugh. 1t takes Balzac to
madden them, or Flaubert in Mad
ame Bovary," or almost any French
nan. The Frenchmen are so like the
women themselves. Another woman
natter was the young German who
wrote her down physiologically and
psychologically to the level of the
oeast-I've forgotten his name. He
knew it all-he was twenty-four
years old when he wrote his book.
Then he killed himself. The women.
think, have the laugh on him. The
women get mad at Roosevelt or the
Kaiser or Premier Asquith or some
,ne else like that for a light remark.
They only smile at Nietzsche and
schopenhauer. Why again? Because
The woman of these philosophers is
evolved from their own inner con-
,ciousness. There never was such a
being. She's like the economic
nan" of the Dismal Science-an alb
| stract conception. Woman Is moth
:ng if not concrete. She doesn't see
herself at all in Schopenhauer's or
Nietzsche's mirror. Il wonder how
she sees herself in mine.) She's the
naster-or mistress-manipulator OF
he mirror, too; she discovered or in
vented it to study herself in. Let
schopenhauer and Nietzsche rave and
.oar. What does 1t all amount to?
Simply this: both men are protest
sng against the eclipse of man by wo-
nanism. One wants to escape from
his by seeking extinction. The 9TH
sr wants to produce Beyond Man
without the aid of woman-sheer lu-
aacy. remember but n fancy
equal to this: that's where the King
is in childbed, in "Aucassin and Nico.
lete," and nothing came of it. In
| Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Woman
sees Man in panic rout before her
triumphant advance. She loves By.
ron who sneered at her. She doesn''
lutte understand Shakespeare, whose
gallantry is Just a little too much
| She thinks Dickens makes a fool OF
her and Thackeray the same, only
more so. The anti-woman philoso'
piers she despises with a touch OF
amusement. She knows she has
them where she wants them-unde1
her feet, and 1.-The heel of the wo'
man." it is written, shall bruise the
head of the serpent" I hope I have
answered the good woman whose
Query is confession and avoidance, fol
It says that only women "are not Of
tended" by the frenzies of the philos'
ophers named; huh, they consider
the st. Louis Mirror. :