Quote Originally Posted by Virulent View Post
I've always loved this theory; I think it explains the world I see around me very well. Most people I know who disagree with it tend to reject it with the suggestion that historical inequalities of circumstances between women have disadvantaged them so severely that its no wonder there are so many fewer female geniuses. Perhaps! That's the sort of argument that only time can test unfortunately.

Anyone have an opinion?
I've always loved her work. It was a while since I read anything so I can't really honestly say that I support it even though I think I do. But I remember exclaiming "yes" a lot when reading Personae. But I do remember that she held back a lot. I think she should have gone further.... maybe she does in later works. Or maybe it's because she's a lady, tee hee hee.

If we accept the theory of evolution there's no reason to think women and men should behave in any way similarly. I've posted the below link before.
http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/people/fuller/Richards.htm

I think its a huge mistake to see either male or female behaviour as rational in any way. Both men and women are primarily guided by evolutionarily guided urges. We have no control over these urges and there's no reason to think that just because they kept a naked monkey alive while collecting nuts and berries... that they'll make our lives any more rational now.

I don't think women in power will solve any problem we don't already have now. I think that we should hold men back, because they have more testosterone. Men will automatically take more space because they have stronger urges to do so than women. On an equal playing field, women will lose, because they don't care as much about winning as men. It's as simple as that. and that is why women are oppressed and discriminated in every conceivable way in every existing society, and every society that has ever existed. Matriarchal societies have never existed. It's always been pure myth.

It's got nothing to do with intelligence. Only the will and urge to dominate and let your ideas take more space than others. Of course nearly half of our histories geniuses have been suppressed and robbed from their possibility to publish... only because of their gender. And they probably didn't even realise it. That's the problem of being a social species like ours. It's hard to notice or register that we're being mistreated if its the norm.

But Camille Paglia for president as far as I'm concerned.