Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- I stumbled on a post where a British writer called Petronella Wyatt was quoted as saying feminism has failed her and her entire generation. The name was misspelled in the post as Petronella White, but my first impression was that familiar script, another myth rolled out to confirm what many men already want to believe, that feminists are villains, antagonists, opponents, rivals, arrogant women who have become uncultured enough to despise submission to any man, to refuse to humble themselves to live under his roof as culture and religion demand.

In that thinking, even two bosses in a relationship without a head, without leadership, even if it is merely symbolic or ceremonial, invites anarchy, because headship helps pla...