The Female Man Women and Femininity Quotes

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Quote #10

When I speak now I am told loftily or kindly that I just don't understand, that women are really happy that way, that women can better themselves if they want to but somehow they just don't want to. (9.3.1)

When Ewing makes statements like these to Janet and Joanna at the party on Riverside Drive, Joanna doesn't dare contradict him. How does the novel itself refute opinions like these?