New-York tribune., 1914-12-02
PetticOat Supremacy Is Producing Generation of
"Sissies" and Is a Menace to the Nation,
Warns Michael Monahan
WOmanism and "PoWder Puff Govern
menf' Is SAmerica's PERIL Cries This
Critic In An EsSay-Jour-
naIiSn1 to Blame.
A s PEOPLE we are suffering
II from too much womanism.

* A SA PEOPLE we are suffering
~ from too much wOmanism.
1--WE are producing a
generation of feminhed men; we are
preparing the way for a nation of
mollycoddles-and not all the Jane
Addamses and Ida Tarbells in the
country can save US!
ave, the American people, are now,
to all intents and purposes, living un-
der gynarchy, and the symbol Of
government is a powder puff"
Sees a War of the Sexes.
In such trenchant terms does Michae
Monahan, editor of "The Phoenix, :"
denounce the feminist movement in
this country. "The American Peril" he
calls il in an article in this issue OF
"The Reply" an anti-suffrage maga.
zine In il he predicts the realization
of the nightmare vision of Schopen-
hauer-"men rising to crush with hor-
rible slaughter an attempt of women
TO dominate the race"
That Mr.. Monahan is not merely an
idle demagogue railing at existing
forms is shown by the temper Of his
two volumes Of essays, "At the Sign
Of the Van" and "Nova Hibernia,"
just issued by Mitchell Kennerley. A
critic has said of him that he is sym
pathetic; that "he does not dip his
pen in gall; he respects the opinion OF
others, even though he may disagree
with them. His attitude toward cur
rent problems is sane, cheerful and
frank"
As editor of "The Papyrus," which
has since been succeeded by "The
Phoenix" Nr. Monahan's words car
ried weight, and as an essayist he is
said to rank with Lamb and Hazlitt
He was born in County Cork, Ireland.
and came to America when a child
"He is always the Irishman; he is
original and, as critic, independent"
his followers say.
Women in journalism the Cause.
The crisis in woman's affairs has
all been caused, according to Mr..
Monahan, by the enlistment of women
in journalism.
"New York owes, in large degree,
this emasculation and degradation OF
her press, once notable for its genius
and authority. to the influence of wom-
en-" he states. "The epicene editor
will deny it in falsetto, and the her
maphrodite publisher wax hot under
his 14h-inch collar, but honest men
know that l speak the mere truth.
what, for example, makes the sue
cess and popularity of the yellow
newspapers THE support of women
who read little or nothing else.
"a peculiar species Of journalism
has been created by women writer's
generally silly and mediocre, but on
occasions shameless and prurient.
They are selected merely for a knack
of scribbling about the invariable
round of petty things which occupy
the female mind. These ladies may be
called the Rice Powder Squad of the
journalistic army, and their special
function is to impart a sexual thrill to
the department under their charge.
Sex Exploited by Women Writers!
"An obvious attempt is made to sea-
son the whole journalistic ragout with
those condiments of sex which the
readers of the popular penny sheets
have been trained to like and expect.
Much of this subtle indecency is the
work of women-it is, alas, a province
in which they excel the cruder facul-
ties Of men.
"The appearance of woman. a !