GIRL BACHELORS
'MASCULINISM" & DEGENERACY That the slim, bobbed-haired type )f masculine girl, popularly known as ;he "bachelor girl," is more subject :han others to cancer is the conten:ion of Mr. John Cope — "a medical nan still in practice." In his 200page "Cancer Civilisation, Degenera;ion," he says he has had much help crom distinguished biologists and surjeons, and his conclusion is that canrer is a symptom of a degenerating ige. Wh'at he calls "masculinism" in tvomen — splendid physique, mannish vays, inhibited sex instincts — it is rontended, are degenerative. Such a ivoman is, in reality, as degenerate in her way as is the effeminate man in his. The under-developed female Deauty now admired, the whole body ;hin and meagre, in contrast with the Greeian Aphrodite type, is only gain2d by woman at the sacrifice of her special attributes.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 283, 25 July 1932, Page 3
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136GIRL BACHELORS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 283, 25 July 1932, Page 3
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