Beginning of Essay
"We will never understand the psychology of either women or men as long as we fail to acknowledge that a state of war has existed between the sexes for approximately six thousand years. This war is a guerrilla war. Six thousand years ago the patriarchy triumphed ....

Middle of Essay
.... favor a movement for women's rights that in reality retains the principles of the patriarchal world, except that women now will have the power that was formerly the exclusive domain of men." This means that women are not "being emancipated as human beings" and the war would then continue and produce a great deal of hatred on both sides. Each group hates the other and fears the attacks of each other. "Even though men pretend otherwise, they nonetheless do fear women." In "Everyday Use," this thinking is put to the test because Mrs. Johnson manages quite well without a man and seems more at peace with herself. Yet Mrs. Johnson exist in the story a ....