“The Feminist (which means, I think, one who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics) has heard my loose monologue, bursting all the time with one pent-up protest.” — G.K. Chesterton
Feminism is the confession that masculinity is all that has mattered all along. It agrees with the chauvinist in saying that women's work is beneath us all.
In short, feminism is the surrender of the feminine.
"In this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly and to all appearance, this ancestral conflict has silently and abruptly ended; one of the two sexes has suddenly surrendered to the other... the woman has in public surrendered to the man. She has seriously and officially owned that the man has been right all along; that the public house is really more important than the private house." — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
For the feminist, the only metrics that matter are the masculine ones. The only yardstick that counts is the one by which manhood is measured. If you try to give a feminist credit for her beauty, she will scold you for not giving her credit for her strength. If you try to compliment her grace, she will deride you for overlooking her grit. If you praise her gentleness, she will upbraid you for debasing her assertiveness.
As such, he private house has been neglected. Men respect the private house, but do not possess the ability or desire to take dominion there. Women despise the private house and abandon it for the sake of being third rate men. The private house is now either attended to by effeminate men filling the gap where their women used to be or by hired hands who babysit, cook, and clean for cash, most of them, you guessed it, women. But since they are getting paid to do it, it counts as an occupation, not a degradation. Additionally, these maids and nannies have now abandoned their own posts, by either neglecting their own children or by not having any, in order to attend to another's abandoned post.
Feminism robs from Mary to pay Martha (and calls both blessed).
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