story “[refutes] the American assumption that white American males treat their wives better than do Chinese husbands.” In “The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese,” the narrator, a young mother named Minnie, describes a miserable life as the wife of James, a writer with an interest in women’s suffrage. James belittles Minnie’s desire to stay at home with their baby, urging her to model herself on the educated businesswomen of that time: “‘You weren't built for anything but taking care of kids
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin