Marriage Where Inequality Exists Must Fail, Is Claim
The female role is terrifying to the average girl of today because woman's rightful sphere has been undervalued by society, Dr. Alfred Adler, Viennese psychologist, told members of the Civitas Club at a meeting held yesterday at 114 Pierrepont st. Only by recognizing homemaking as an art will a true sense of equality be established, he declared.
"From the days of their childhood," he said, "we hear girls express the wish that they had been born boys. The desire of many parents to have boys as children rather than girls is harmful to both sexes because of the false sense of values resulting. Then, too, the greater freedom accorded to boys causes girls to imitate them because they cannot bear to play an inferior role. Both boys and girls must be educated to a belief in the equality of the sexes or they will not be properly prepared for the responsibilities of love and marriage.
"This sense of inequality between the sexes often leads young women to choose old men or weaklings for husbands in order that they may have the upper hand. Marriages where inequality exists are bound to fail. It is not possible in a culture such as ours for one person to dominate the other without an active resistance.
"Literature and the movies of today have also imposed upon us false standards by always picturing struggle and insecurity in marriage. Our outlook is strongly influenced by the tense situations and difficulties which we see constantly stressed."
Fuente: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, Nueva York), jueves 10 de febrero de 1927, p. 5; crónica sin firma, en dos columnas. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página (fultonhistory.com, «Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1927 a Grayscale - 1547.pdf»), cotejada con el OCR de la plataforma, que mezcla la pieza con la noticia contigua («Steuben Society Opens», omitida); la imagen no confirma las palabras «arranged and» que la transcripción normalizada del OCR conjeturaba en la última frase. La charla se había anunciado en el Eagle del 5 y del 8 de febrero de 1927, en relación con el libro sobre el matrimonio del conde Keyserling.