One of the things which surprises me is that some people insist that the difference between men and women in their physical and psychological make-up should be depicted as women being imperfect and man being comparatively perfect. This would show that the law of creation had some ulterior motive in creating woman an imperfect being. The idea that a woman is an imperfect creature arose among the people of the west before it did among us easterners. Men of the west were quite unjust in their jeering at women and in calling her imperfect. Sometimes they claimed to be representing the church and remarked ‘A woman should be ashamed of being a woman’. Sometimes they said Woman is a being who has long hair and is short of understanding’. ‘A woman is the last of all savage beasts whom man has tamed.’ ‘A woman is the last link between animals and human beings ’ and so on.
More surprising than this is that a section of the people to the west have recently done a complete volte-face and now want to prove by one thousand and one different arguments that man is an imperfect inferior and humble being and that woman is perfect and superior sex.
If you my dignified reader had gone through the book The Natural Superiority of women written by Ashley Montague which was serialized in Zan-e ruz you would have seen how strenuously and with what shower of nonsensical talk the author wanted to prove that woman is more perfect than man. That book in so far as it presents the results of the discoveries of medicine psychology or social statistics is very valuable but when the writer himself proceeds to draw “inferences” and wants to deduce conclusions in support of his theory which is represented by the title of the book he goes to the extremes of nonsense.
Why should they consider woman to be so inferior and worthless an object one day and then be obliged the next day to make amends for the past and do away with all deficiencies and defects from the face of woman and transfer them to the face of man? Why should it be necessary to interpret the differences between man and woman as an imperfection in one and perfection in the other and be obliged at one time to take the side of one and at another time to support the other?
On the one hand Mr. Montague insists on representing woman a species superior to man yet on other hand he represents the distinctive attributes of man as being the result of historical and social factors and not the result of natural factors.
In fact the differences between men and women are a matter of symmetry and not one of imperfection or perfection. It is the intention of the law of creation that these differences should be the source of a better relationship between women and men who are without doubt created to live together. To live a single life is contrary to the law of creation. This point will become clearer during our subsequent discussion in connection with our clarifications of the differences.
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