Mahayana Dugast's Reviews > Trouble with Lichen

I enjoyed the idea and debate around living 200 years by eating a lichen. 
But this extract put a bee in my bonnet: "...To be anthropological about it, the present primary social role of western women is his wife. Her secondary status is his mother..." 
The latter part of this phrase made me shudder. When a wife assumes the role of a mother, she condones her husband to behave like a little boy. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect him to lie and try to get away with things, as charming children do, while she must play her nagging role—a sickly dynamic.