There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper?

Question

--- quote by Camile Paglia.

Thoughts?

Who forgot to give that guy his Lithium today? Jeez, give it a rest. If you can't figure it out, move on to some other question.

These are not "my facts" or "my ideas". This is a quote I found suitable for discussion in a women's studies forum. I am not going to say whether I agree or disagree - the point is to consider it and perhaps to dispute it or agree with some part of it.

Answer 1

I guess she had never heard of Aillen Wuornos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

Answer 2

Jack The Ripper A Female

Answer 3

confident, I do have self belief that is available that Jack the Ripper would have been a woman. As i'm particular has been suggested, have been the Ripper lady, she would have won the confidences of the girls people till now she murdered them. As to the plain concern together with her surgical information, no longer all women people in the Victorian era have been brainless twits. It has consistently been that way. If the Ripper have been certainly a woman, she would have had time to %. up the certainty of human anatomy and surgical precision slicing for the time of the loose time she had on an identical time as her husband grew to become into out of the residing house. She does no longer have ever been suspected, because of the fact God forbid a woman comprehend a thank you to do something yet pray silently and characteristic infants in that component. an exciting component that i think of desires to be meditated is her reason. What would reason a woman to alter right into a chilly-blooded murderess? perhaps it grew to become into because of the fact no person believed she would desire to do something, because she grew to become right into a woman, hmm? Or, perhaps, she merely enjoyed the sheer theory of having that lots potential in her palms. no person will comprehend, because of the fact investigators weren't huge-minded adequate to contemplate the fairer intercourse for a deed so dark and haunting. exciting question; I applaud your ingenuity.

Answer 4

Stripped bare, the quote essentially states that there are no extremes in females. We have produced no one "exceptionally great" because we have no "exceptionally bad" people. At first glance, it makes the subject (females) reek of mediocrity.

Sifting through the layers, however, it is quite possible that this is a motivation-though-harsh-reality type of statement. No, it's not saying that there need to be more Jack the Rippers in the world - look deeper.

In the past, women have been expected to play a certain role. This statement points out the mediocrity of a woman's stereotypical role by noting that there are no extremes on EITHER side, positive or negative.

While I am not a feminazi, I believe that men and women have equal (just very different) contributions to make. I feel that this quote was meant to be a spur in the sides of those women who are easily contented with their place in life, regardless of any male input. There is no reason for anyone (male or female) not to aspire to their greatest dreams, no matter what that dream is: race car driver, homemaker, baker, astronaut, teacher, sanitation engineer, prostitute, nun, writer...whatever the dream is, there is no reason on this earth why you should not pursue it.

Interesting.

Answer 5

The quote makes more sense when it's not taken of of context which is: "Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."

I'm not saying I agree or disagree. I'm just clarifying what Paglia thought she was talking about.

Answer 6

Who is Camille Paglia? And what does musical achievement have to do with serial killers? I don't see the connection here. At all. Forgive me, maybe I'm being naive but I just don't see a correlation or connection of any kind. The only thing I can gather is that she might be saying that only men are capable of extremes in anything: be it musical achievements or serial killing. And if that's the case, I would not agree. We have very gifted female artists and we've got Aileen Wuernos....enough said.

Answer 7

Despite what people here are saying, the quote is based on on obvious truth - namely, men are far likely to be geniuses or psychopaths than women are. Pointing out exceptions doesn't change this.

Answer 8

Camille Paglia can be a self-righteous buffoon.

You have Marie Curie, Queen Hatshepsut, and Rosalind Franklin - enough said.

Answer 9

Merely a observation on women not having big representation in the tails of distributed human behavior. But, you knew that, didn't you?

Look at all the anecdote. Lizzy Borden indeed!

Look at all this nonsense!!! I despair of WGS. Does anyone get a introduction to scientific thinking anymore?

Answer 10

A woman who deviates outside of the normal behavior risks not having a mate and/or not being able to protect her children. Thus, any of the "Lizzie Borden" types throughout history have had few to no children, thus their DNA is cancelled.

Genetically speaking, it simply doesn't pay for a woman to be independent or job focused or feminist or self-employed or ...
Each of these reduces the number of children she has and/or the chances of the children surviving.

The absolute best part of feminism is that feminist are not having children. They are canceling themselves from the gene pool. Ha ha ah ahahah There *is* a god.

Answer 11

I think she probably meant that

although women have been supressed for centuries and so have not had many achivements in the arts and sciences,

women have also not been the prepetrators of the most heinous, base crimes.