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The Disciple asked,
>"What is a misogynist?"
The Master replied,
>"I do not know; but it is used by cowards as a term of abuse for those who say what everybody thinks. Cowards are men who cannot approach a woman without becoming treacherous. They seek to buy the woman's favor by serving her their friends' heads on a silver platter, and they absorb so much femininity that they see with her eyes and feel with her feelings. Agreed, there are things you do not mention in everyday conversation, and you do not tell your woman what is the essence of her gender; but one is sometimes allowed to write it. Schopenhauer put it best, Nietzche not badly, Joséphin Péladan is the master; Thackeray wrote Men's Wives, which was suppressed; Balzac unmasked Caroline in The Physiology of Marriage, and Petty Troubles of Married Life; Otto Weininger, having discovered the treachery when he was twenty did not wait but left the scene."
