meming

It seems to me more than likely that it is men, not women, who are the carriers of the dominant meme of femininity (they carry it expectantly in their imaginations, and are driven by a half-repressed desire to see the pattern of it repeated everywhere.) Women, on the other hand, carry it only as a recessive meme. If it were not for certain men and the power of their imaginations, femininity as such would have long ago ceased to exist. Instead we would just perceive a spectrum of different people with their different desires and longings.