A bit from Mill’s Subjection of Women, because I was reminded of it by a quotation from Sheila Jeffreys:
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.
That’s Jeffreys; now Mill.
… Read the restAll causes, social and natural, combine to make it unlikely that women should be collectively rebellious to the power of men. They are so far in a position different from all other subject classes, that their masters require something more from them than actual service. Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. All men, except the most brutish, desire to have, in