That's sort of a recurring theme from the Victorian and Edwardian eras isn't it? A bit of an artifact that I find is an anathema to the rugged, individualistic stoic that made the Americas. From Washington, to Juan Manuel De Rosas, to Teddy Roosevelt.
All the so called "men" of the Viennese coffee shop, of the elite of Europe were a bunch of dysgenic, effete snobs who were constantly portrayed as LITERALLY SHAKING..and fainting at the drop of a hat, needing to be "refreshed with brandy" and patted and reassured by the ever present female whose "subtle strengths of the woman mean that she is a creature built to endure where the man is a far more intemperate beast". I've never cared for that...I've found it to be probably the driving force behind why European cultures basically got emasculated into irrelevancy by the Americas and Japan in the gilded age and the 20th century...Why world wars broke them and yet invigorated us.
We are creatures of emotion..But we shouldn't
be creatures governed by emotion..... A male, a real male weaponizes it, channels it, pulls the iron of his heart through a crucible of life experience and knowledge to create pristine steel that allows him to assert his will against the world. To do this a male needs a female who is just as driven, just as assertive and usually they both need kids to move their asses. We are not as a species meant to be alone, nor are we meant to be governed by one or the other.
The Female by contrast, was always the keeper of the culture and the blood, practicing a fucked up caveman's understanding of eugenics, with ostracization and condemnation. It's why 90% of domestic abuse involving a male ends in prison time but 90% of domestic abuse perpetrated by a female ends in suicides...We're both compelled by biology and driven by instinct...But we're the emotional ones..Woman at her core is cold, methodical, robotic and governed by a need to cull. And neither one is whole and able to function properly without the other in their life..And even then they usually need kids to keep it from turning into MAD. Again....not meant to be alone, not meant to dominated or to dominate.
The matriarchically lead societies of the world were of the most grotesque and violent and vicious on earth...And patriarchies tend to crumble from within because they're either run by absolute SIMPs (Europe in the 1880's and Nazi Germany), or the men who run them become short sighted, greey, fat and lazy...and will import a bunch of violent aliens and create welfare dependencies that destroy them (Rome with the Germanics and Modern Europe).
The only societies that haven't been a gigantic clusterfuck are the ones where the two dysfunctional beasts that make up our species work together..usually under pressure and against an external threat.
The US is a great example of that...pioneers were married couples working together in tandem with their neighbors to assert their will on a wild land....When a strong daddy or a wise matron took over in parts of Latin America those nations tended to crumble under batshit lunacy or moral and spiritual cuckoldry rather quickly and only sorted themselves out (if at all) when
families moved together..
Of course none of this is possible without
culture
And in every instance of either extreme..Culture had been gutted and rebooted a few generations prior..or Culture had been formed retardedly (Sparta was doomed before it even began because of Bronze age Soccer moms, Japan was hopelessly fucked because it always prized collective male honor over individual honor and pride). And those glorious civilizations where men and women built better worlds together..tended to only collapse when one gender or the other asserted itself..and then did something to fuck its culture up the ass.
Modern women are a disaster for the same reason modern men are...Because we've been sold a lie that deconstruction is beneficent..it isn't and every nation, every civilization throughout history that's flirted with it went up in flames.
Patriarchy isn't the answer..Cultural Supremacy is.