Coining derogatory terms for entitled radical feminist American women who seek to corrupt others and have no morals or shame is probably a bad activity, but the use of such words does save time as one no longer has to string adjectives in order to describe the sort of person to which they refer.
I am reminded of the movie
Atonement, and despite the anger of men who have been mistreated by women and the courts, they have been surprisingly restrained in their choice of vocabulary, although they may express their anger or misogyny in other ways. Is there an equivalent in Shakespearean English to describe that sort of modern American woman?
I was thinking also about people I know, those men who profess to be egalitarians or even feminists, and attempt to split everything 50/50 -- a "partnership" in their minds, all the while cohabitating and trying things out. Who is more correct, they or those who believe that men and women think differently and approach relationships differently. Was it a good thing to expect that sort of chivalry from men that they would seek to protect the feelings of a woman when courting or dating her? "Women aren't so fragile!" some might declare. In the past upright men weren't to consider just the feelings of women but the consequences of their own words and actions on the dignity and honor of women, their reputations and marriageability. That sex is intended to be procreative is perhaps the primary basis for all of this, but it is not the only component for our understanding of tradition customs for the pairing off of men and women.
These days it seems that "feelings" and how they are impacted by actions are all that matter, though some argue that consent is sufficient to trump feelings. (See mainstream discussions of the
Julian Assange case.)
Members of both sexes are victims of radical egalitarianism. The appellation "the war between the sexes" is rather misleading. In so far as feminism is the attempt by women to be like men, they have lost. But both men and women (and children) have suffered as a result of the chaos caused by feminism in families and society at large.
Some women may be lead to compromise their morals in matters of sexual intimacy because of emotion or weakness, but for other women it is a matter of rebellion or pride, as they proclaim that they know better about sex and love than their elders, tradition, or God.
Is recent history just a series of rebellions culminating in the division of man from woman and the destruction of marriage?
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