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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
That is one aspect of evil, but certainly not the only one. However, I can imagine that Tolkien would have understood modern day feminists as trying to wrest from men what should be left to them, especially as those things women must give up in order to have what the feminists desire, are the things that women, if they really understood themselves, treasure most. Not that I agree with such a view, but I understand it and its mindset.
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LMP treads on dangerous ground. This writer is tempted to compose a rant, but because it would be strictly off topic, I won't.  
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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
Do women (let's be specific: women who are members of the Barrowdowns) really understand what it is like to be a man relating to women?
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Probably not. At least I don't. I think I can guess what those missing items are that you allude to. 
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...whereas he saw slavery as unjust and therefore, though "aberrant", nevertheless wrong.
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Far more succinct summary of the mixture of contemporary and old issue than I was going to attempt.
Back to ruminating...
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
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