That man, "the male," did all these things was to them a statement,
making no more change in the point of view than was made in ours
when we first faced the astounding fact--to us--that in Herland
women were "the world."
We had been living there more than a year. We had learned
their limited history, with its straight, smooth, upreaching lines,
reaching higher and going faster up to the smooth comfort of
their present life. We had learned a little of their psychology, a
much wider field than the history, but here we could not follow
so readily. We were now well used to seeing women not as females
but as people; people of all sorts, doing every kind of work.
This outbreak of Terry's, and the strong reaction against it,
gave us a new light on their genuine femininity. This was given
me with great clearness by both Ellador and Somel. The feeling
was the same--sick revulsion and horror, such as would be felt
at some climactic blasphemy.
They had no faintest approach to such a thing in their minds,
knowing nothing of the custom of marital indulgence among us.
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