A woman is given a kingdom to call her very own. She is the be all end all of her domain. She has domestic omnipotence. She is universal in a given place. The smallness of its scale provides the largeness of its responsibility. She is given full reign to rule as she sees fit: from the color of the sheets on the beds to the portions of meat on the plate, she rules the roost.
The man is often striving simply to acquire secular competence. Far from being sovereign, he is subject to the whims of his masters. The man works hard to develop skills that will keep him employed and out of trouble. If he works well, he may be promoted to another level of competence under another master. The man must aim for public competence. He must be a specialist because the largeness of the work demands it.
The man strives to be something at work so that woman can be everything at home. He needs to be someone to everyone while she gets to be everyone to a few people.
A wife is a queen of a whole world. A husband is often a servant in part of someone else's. A mother is a sovereign under her roof. A father is often under obligation under someone else's.
The woman is free to rule her own domain; the man is often enslaved inside another's. The woman in her home is her own boss. The man at the office must answer to multiple.
Feminism encourages women to enslave themselves for the sake of saying that they are as free as men to submit themselves to many masters. Feminism calls women to forsake their sovereignty in order to serve someone else's for the sake of being just as enslaved as men. Feminism calls slavery "freedom," and servitude "emancipation" It has convinced women to freely submit to the chains of the office in order to abandon the oppressiveness of being unbound at home.
"Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands." — G.K. Chesterton
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