Gough's comment amounts to what feminist Shillary Clinton said about women and war:
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.” - Hillary Clinton.
So according to Shillary, women are the primary victims of war because after their man died in battle she's now forced into taking on the responsibility and obligation of being the main provider. It goes to show how insignificant to this feminist the value of men's lives are. She's implying that men are disposable utilities to be exploited and that their only value is in how their labour benefits women, and that such labour is worth more than the man's life itself. This is an example of men being treated as human doings, not as human beings, to which I've previously discussed.
Men being seen by women as human doings rather than humans beings is spoken of in Briffault's law.
BRIFFAULT’S LAW:
The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.
There are a few corollaries I would add:
- Past benefit provided by the male does not provide for continued or future association.
- Any agreement where the male provides a current benefit in return for a promise of future association is null and void as soon as the male has provided the benefit (see corollary 1)
- A promise of future benefit has limited influence on current/future association, with the influence inversely proportionate to the length of time until the benefit will be given and directly proportionate to the degree to which the female trusts the male (which is not bloody likely).