Feminism

Scientific Outlook (1931) by Bertrand Russell, page 221:

Science increases our power to do both good and harm, and therefore enhances the need for restraining destructive impulses. If a scientific world is to survive, it is therefore necessary that men should become tamer than they have been. The splendid criminal must no longer be an ideal, and submissiveness must be more admired than it has been in the past.

In a more sensible community, each family would occupy a part of an immense building with a courtyard in the middle; there would be no individual cooking, but only communal meals. Children, as soon as they were no longer at the breast, would spend their day in large airy halls under the care of women possessing the knowledge, the training, and the temperament required for making young children happy. the wives, who at present drudge all day doing wasteful work badly, would be set free to earn their living outside the home. (227)

The freedom to cause one's children to grow up stunted and crippled on the ground that one os too fond of them to part with them is a freedom which is certainly not in the public interest. (227)

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