White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-18
Why We Behave
Like Human Beings
Mate Hunger of the Sexes
By GEORGE DORSEY, ph. D., IL. D.

lance. Within, she was supreme. In
this woman-made world men passed
half their lives; the other half was
spent in bringing home the bacon.
Women generally married for love,
as they do now if their mate-hunger lie
unimpaired and they are free to marry
the man Of their choice" There
we're three categories Of women: mar
ried, old maids, and fallen" Thou.
sands of American communities had
no fallen" and next to no old maids.
Now women have their rights" In
obtaining rights" she abdicated a
throne: she no longer rules by divine
right. The children that bless the
home" are turned over to the nurse
while mother presides at bridge, over
conventions for the proper care OF
children, over committees to cleanse
the slums. Result: males no longer
naively accept matrimony or implicitly
trust their wives; females turn to
matrimony if they have nowhere else
to turn.
All this, of course, makes for "prog.
ress." But in our social progress we
have acquired special schools where
boys and girls may learn horrible
vice, and sluns which in squalor, yer.
min, filth, and disease, and in the mum.
Der of their dope fiends, pickpockets
paupers, degenerates, hays, and har
lots, are quite as advanced" as those
of Paris or London. 1t Is no longer
necessary to go abroad to see "life"
Babylon has moved to Main street.
Social conditions are changing, but
the average American girl still ap'
proaches her majority fitted fol
no economically independent career
For that no special preparation Ia
deemed necessary. She Is girl: wha'
more can one ask? Few men ask
more. Some do not get whole WON.
an. More rarely does the woman get
a whole man. But sauce for the goose
is not sauce for the gander in these
days of holeproof socks, built-in beds
meals out, and no babies allowed; the
gander may feel that as meal ticket
he is entitled to a different brand Of
sauce.
To say that the mate-hunger Ia
greater in one sex than in the 9th
er is nonsense. It takes different
forms in the two sexes because Of
training and the situation. Nor are
~ ohi1
women. Having wider interests, they
are bored sooner.
mamie, don't be a tomboy!"
Many a mother these days nearly
"dies of shame" when Mamie hobs hel
hair and marches off in the garb Of
a girl scout. "Girls didn't do such
outlandish things in my day!" They
did not. We have to learn anew what
our stone-ax ancestors knew: girls car
be as "outlandish" as boys! The girls
themselves are just beginning to dis
cover it. Marriage behavior is in fol
further conditioning. The sex com
plex may become simple again.
A psychosis is morbid mental
state. We all have our little psychoses
That SO few have big psychoses, thai
so few asylums are required to house
the mentally unbalanced, is tribute
to our sound Inheritance and our ca
pacity to preserve our balance in in
creasingly complex situations and ar
environment which changes faster thar
man can change his mind.
My chief psychosis is, let us say, .
morbid love for dogs. "shudder with
horror" at the sight Of a dog fight.
loathe the dog pound and am the dead
ly enemy Of the dog catcher. defy
the muzzle law-openly when I dare
endow hospitals for unadjusted dogs
and cemeteries for dead ones. In
short, am "crazy" about dogs. But
as am not a menace to society, I am
tolerated, even encouraged by sym
pathizers."
There are as many kinds and de-
grees of psychoses as there are of in
digestion. There are few perennially
sound minds in perennially sound
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balance or off our feed now and then
Sometimes it is serious. When we are
off our balance, society suffers; when
we are off our feed, we suffer. So.
ciety expects us to behave. And prop.
erly locks us up when our behavior ia
dangerous. But If we die of indiges.
ton, society is not interested.
There are those who cry when they
hear a dog bowling, smile when II
wags it's tail: the wall or gurgle OF
an infant means nothing to them
Some cover from lightning, and when
the thunder roars overhead shut them.
selves up in closet. dodge an i'm.
aginary pump handle as go by q
certain spot. Few women would touch
snake for worlds; some love and
make pets of them. Some go miles to
see a prize fight and are disappointed
If no blood flows. Whole nations go
to bull fights, knowing they will see
streams of blood. Some women faint
Of tho mere sight Of blood: an Eng.