A Reply To The Walrus
Sir,—l trust The Walrus is feeling chastened, no less by May E. Furey’s forthright challenge to confound the male sex in controversy than by M. G. Davies’s crys-tal-clear exposition of Socratic theories. Both these doughty champions of feminism will, however, no doubt be glad of my support, though my role in history may have escaped their notice. At the battle of Salamis, I and my Amazons were fighting on the Persian side, and with my wellknown slogan. “Up, girls, and at ’em.” ringing in their ears, my trusty troops performed prodigies of valour against the Greeks. Xerxes was suitably impressed, and as the Persian boys, who
hadn’t had our stiff training, made a rather poor display, he remarked a little bitterly that his men fought like women and his women like men. So now, perhaps, The Walrus will just tell us what men have got that we haven’t.—Yours, ARTEMISIA. October 3, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 3
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