早在1944年,周作人便在一篇论述自己思想渊源的长文中说过,一个男子“若能知哀妇人而为之代言,则已得圣王之心传,其贤当不下周公矣”。这里,他将对女性命运的同情,提高到了“圣王”的境界。在当代的女权主义者(feminist,或译女性主义者)看来,这或许要被斥为男性中心主义的思维模式,因为这无疑依然是将女性视为被同情、被怜悯的弱者,需要作为强者形象的男性来拯救;而在某些“激进女权主义者”(radical femi- As early as 1944, Zhou Zuoren said in a long essay on the origins of his thoughts that a man “who knew the sad woman and endorsed it, had the heart of the holy king, whose virtuous man could not do anything inferior.” Here, he raised the sympathy for the fate of women to the realm of the “holy king.” In the eyes of contemporary feminist feminists, this may have to be denounced as a masculine mode of thinking, as this undoubtedly remains the weakness of females as sympathetic, compassionate, Strong men to rescue; and in some "radical femi-