I was there (in the 70's that is) and that is long after the female superiority myth was invented. True, it was perpetuated by Feminists, but not invented by them. Also, note I use the capital "F" Feminist. By this I mean the political (and often but not always radical) feminists. During the seventies I was adamant in describing my self as a "small f" feminist - I believed in fundamental principles of equality and partnership, and did not claim for myself, or womanhood in general, any moral superiority. (At least no moral superiority that was inherant in being a woman. I was neither so modest or naive to not believe that I was morally superior to many men and women - and possibly morally inferior to many too.)

Anyway, the thing about being a Feminist in the 70's, and claiming female superiority, you didn't have to be a woman. Men like Adlai Stevenson and Alan Alda took up the torch of those like Robert Heinlein, both helping the cause of equal rights and also setting women up on that damned pedestal.

In part, I think the moral superiority claim grew out of the alliance between Feminism and the anti-war movement. Mothers do not send their sons to war. (A gross historical inaccuracy.)

I suspect I'm starting to babble now, so I shall depart.