THE MAN AND THE WOMAN.
"The American man lias much better manners toward women than the Englishman," says Miss Rebecca West. "Jio has not that peculiarly maddening attitude of patronage and censoriousness which makes the traveller returning to British shores signalise his feelings, firstly by kneeling down to kiss English soil, and, secondly, by getting up to smack the head of the nearest Englishman as soundly as possible. "The essence of that attitude is a demand that a woman shall be attractive and amusing, with an enormous capacity for despising her if she is not. but for taking it stolidly for granted if she is; coupled with a complete lack of any sense of obligation to be reciprocally attractive and amusing on his part. "The American man is much more modest «nd much more alive to the fact that males us well as females are under a necessity of justifying their existence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18814, 15 September 1924, Page 12
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152THE MAN AND THE WOMAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18814, 15 September 1924, Page 12
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