Sublime

Women’s adherence to the relevant social roles—as, for example, loving wives, devoted moms, “cool” girlfriends, loyal secretaries, or good waitresses, to name just a few of the most obvious examples—is supposed to look as natural or freely chosen as possible.

"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

O fato de as mulheres competirem entre si através da “beleza” é o inverso da forma pela qual a seleção natural afeta outros mamíferos. A antropologia derrubou a teoria de que as fêmeas teriam de ser “belas” para serem selecionadas para reprodução.

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As men, our biological impetus is a desire for unlimited access to unlimited sexuality with females bearing the best physical attributes. Ever wonder why pornography has been an ever-present element of human society for millennia? It simulates exactly this (virtual) access.

Or say it turned out that, in fact, women were on average worse at some other workplace activity. Still, likely many women would be better at that activity than most of the men, and you would gain from spotting and enabling those women. So even if you think “women are worse at [fill in the blank],” it is still a mistake to dismiss female talent. Th

‘The first departure from type is indeed that the offspring should become female instead of male’, he wrote in his biological treatise On the Generation of Animals. (He did allow that this…

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