ABSTRACT
The British psychologist Gleen Wilson has expressed the point very well: What seems to have escaped the feminists is that their own position may be the biggest insult to women the gender has ever had to suffer. From the demands of feminists to the creation of cabinet-level departments of women, and passing by what are doubtless more significant developments like unisex fashions or the participation of both parents in infant care, our time has witnessed numerous changes. Still more characteristically, many aspects of relations between the sexes are tending toward equalization—even though what people think has changed much less than what they say. A woman only realizes herself as a woman in the presence of a man who plays the role of a man. In the same way, a teacher only becomes himself in front of his students, an actor in front of his audience, and a general in front of his troops.
