Crossword-Solution: UNSEX 5 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When this demand was first made, by women of unusual calibre, and by men sufficiently human to overlook sex-prejudice, how was it met? What was the attitude of woman's "natural protector" when she began to ask some share in human life? Under the universal assumption that men alone were humanity, that the world was masculine and for men only, the efforts of the women were met as a deliberate attempt to "unsex" themselves and become men.

Was this improvement hailed with sympathy and admiration--crowned with masculine favor? The attitude of men toward those women who have so far presumed to "unsex themselves" is known to all.

When opposed, the protagonists of this position cry that their opponent wishes to unsex women; to repudiate motherhood; and see in all the natural development of the modern woman only a threat of decreased population.

Witness Lady Macbeth when she summons the powers of hell to unsex her for her murderous task, or Vanni Fucci in the _Inferno_,[Footnote: _Inferno_, Canto 25, 1-3.] who mocks at God.

You write as if you were a commonplace male cynic, and I a woman who was trying to unsex herself by a lot of ridiculous affectations.