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Title: Why Women Need Egoism Author: Fraulein Lepper Date: February 12, 1899 Language: en Topics: individualism, egoism, anarcha-feminism Source: *The Eagle and the Serpant: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology* No. 7 (G), February 12, 1899. Text retrieved from https://www.unionofegoists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Eagle_and_the_Serpent-07-No07.pdf
Women have become more degenerated through altruism than men on account
of their different conception of the meaning of altruism. Although the
creed of the male altruist professedly is “to make others happy first,”
he insists upon it that his food is always properly cooked, his house
and children must be clean, his wife is expected to submit to his
marital rights, etc., etc. A male altruist has drawn up a set of laws,
called by him marital duties, legalized by himself, which secure his
comfort and ease. These duties must be fulfilled by the wife at all
cost, no matter whether she is made unhappy or loses her health by them.
The wife through her lack of time to think for herself believes this set
of household laws or duties must be strictly obeyed in order to be a
true woman. The consequence is the noticeable ugliness and bad health of
female married altruists. Their habit of ceaseless giving or slaving
makes them a disgrace to altruism. If it were a virtue to give profusely
like the sun, as the Bible teaches, to give would make the giver more
and more beautiful. If a “virtue” degenerates physically and mentally,
it is a vice which should be shunned.
Where is salvation found for woman or is she destined to re main a
contemptible slave? Disappointed altruists who desire to be healthy,
beautiful, happy and wise will find in egoism their only salvation,
because it teaches self-knowledge. Woman will learn to get hold of
herself, to be her own guide. When she be comes clear-sighted through a
rational way of living, she will her self discern where her duties lie.
The duties of an egoistic woman lie in the same direction as those of an
egoistic man, namely, first to make herself happy and secondly to make
others happy. No egoistic woman will give a gift: unless she has
received one of equal value. She will make no one happy unless she is
made happy like wise. This just and wise doctrine will act as a
beautifier on women of all ages. The young will be made more beautiful
and attractive and those advanced in years will be rejuvenated by it.
To an ambitious woman egoism offers a special inducement, because the
knowledge how best to supply the needs of her body will rapidly develop
her already great intuitive powers, in consequence of which she will be
able to outwit any intellectual giant of a blunted psychic nature.