Correct. And Winston’s assessments were, and remain, spot-on. Read 1984 in high school, and this observation of his impressed me at the time. I’d been raised to believe that women were the moral superiors of men, and that they were inherently more trustworthy. I was misled, to say the least.
Orwell is characterized by the Left today as a misogynist, and the only “evidence” they have are quotes like that in a fictional book...though...not so fictional anymore.
Many women (most especially and specifically Feminists) believe they are the moral superiors of men, and their fallacious belief is buttressed by the fact that many men of my generation (and those before me) elevated women onto a pedestal.
The thing those women don’t understand is why we put them on pedestals at all, and it wasn’t because we thought them to be morally superior. We put them on pedestals because they brought aspects to the table in given situations that men generally do not, and intelligent men recognize this symbiotic intellectual and emotional relationship.
The grave error that females of these types fall prey to in this is that those same types of women don’t reciprocate that generally positive sentiment of male/female complimentary relationships, and they believe they bring not only their own female-related aspects to the table that men lack, but somehow believe that they as females also bring the critical male aspects to the table (male aspects that women, no matter how fervently they believe they do possess, simply do not generally possess or supply) so in their minds, men are not necessary.
Hence the fallacious, corrosive, and offensive mindset of “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”. I have come to believe this is the root of many problems we see in society today.
Experience shows that the feminist mindset is not only false, but dangerous and intentionally divisive. And we have seen the fruits of that poisonous tree expand throughout society and into the fundamental concept of family, resulting in epidemic single parent families which, although they sometimes happen out of necessity, are not something to aspire to. The statistics on single-parent families and their outcomes are clear and undeniable.
And just to be clear, this is a Leftist Feminist mindset.
Conservative women are more often than not cognizant of the specific differences between males and females, and are generally aware that, apart from the obvious physical differences, men bring character traits to the table that compliment those characteristics that are not generally dominant in females, and vice versa.
But that commonsense mindset is not what drives everything in American society today ranging from investment to military planning and deployment. They want to take the idiotic “GI Jane” mindset that is so prevalent in Hollywood and the media, and treat that as if it were a fact, and a state that must be achieved.