WOMEN AND COURAGE
Sir,-‘" We speak as we do know," so that if " Thid’s" spate of vapid meanderings label his feminine friends, he has only himself to blame-though intelligent members of both sexes would criticise, not his company, but his eclecticism. As regards his wholesale condemnation of my sex, including a charge of want of courage, " Thid" has chosen a most inappropriate season for his quasi-humorous indictment-a_ season when women are suffering untold horrors, yet are standing shoulder to shoulder with their men, hourly performing deeds of quiet heroism in the grim arena of a man-made war. " Thid " should remember that it is men, not women, who are bombing maternity homes and children’s hospitals! But that apart-has there not been even one woman, somewhere, who has contributed in some way to "Thid’s" well-being-wived him, borne his children, cooked and cleaned, washed and mended, and considered him in a thousand ways? Surely not, else gratitude for that woman would be a bulwark for her sex forever against his or any other man’s cheap ridicule. As for the charge of moral cowardice -well, will "Thid" please set us an example of courage? Such a _ charge comes strangely from one who throws mud from the shelter of anonymity and a "Somewhere in N.Z." address. Finally, thay I recommend "Thid" to discard his pen as a mud-slinger and try a longhandled «shovel: it holds more, and besides, he wouldn’t have to stoop so low!
JEAN
BOSWELL
(Mount Eden).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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244WOMEN AND COURAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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