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Show The Average Woman Has More Personality Than the Average Man Ey DR. CHARLES G. SHAW, New York University. OXE hears a great deal about the superman, but not much about the superwonmn. In like manner, we observe cartoons of the cave man swinging his club over the head of the cave woman. But there may be something wrong with the picture. As a matter of fact, women are more highly individuated than men. Their delicate race may not show a long list of towering personalities to corn-pure corn-pure with the line of warriors, artists and statesmen produced by their brothers. But the average woman has more personality than the average man. This fact was never truer than it is today In this age of flapperg. and bobbed hair. Man has elaborated a civilization which has ever tended to obliterate obliter-ate individuality. But such . a man-made civilization has never made any great appeal to women who have done little else than tolerate and be amused by it. The result has been to allow woman to preserve and develop de-velop her natural individuality. Woman is no social creature in the sense that she, as is the case with men, loves to be organized in armies, factories, lodges, clubs and unions. It is man who is the "joiner," who dreads being different from his fellows. Woman hates to be the same as her sisters. She is enraged at discovering dis-covering that some other woman has a dress of cut and pattern like her own. As a member of any organization woman is a fish out of water. wa-ter. She may have her women's clubs, modeled on masculine lines, but in her heart she knows that they are ridiculous organizations. Her desire is to be free and original. This appears in the way she dresses. In the important matter of morals woman has always been her own guide. Women are actually more moral than men. But they arrive at moral results instinctively, without appeal to any ethical code. Women are moral without being ethical; that is, they are individual in their habits. Will woman change? Will the new woman, with her masculine habits, become more and more like a man? Woman has long been a problem, and now she is more of a problem than ever; that is, she is a problem for man. |