But there are deep analogies between the situations of women and blacks: both are liberated today from the same paternalism, and the former master caste wants to keep them 'in their place,' that is, the place chosen for them; in both cases, they praise, more or less sincerely, the virtues of the 'good black,' the carefree, childlike, merry soul of the resigned black, and the woman who is a 'true woman' frivolous, infantile, irresponsible, the woman subjugated to man.