Bogey (noun): a source of fear, perplexity, or harassment.
Mina Loy, Feminist Manifesto: “…therefore, the fist self-enforced law for the female sex, as a protection of the man made bogey of virtue..”
This quote say that men use the fear of virtue against women to hold them under subjection to men. In order to keep women from striving, men would have to make them afraid of being successful. This could happen by telling women that successful women are lonely, and no man would want to be with them, or anything that would put second thoughts of success in a woman’s mind.
-”Bogey.” Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 19 May 2014
