Or as Camille Paglia says, “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper”
“About this Quote
Paglia’s line lands like a cold splash: it refuses the comforting idea that history’s gender gap is merely a bookkeeping error. By pairing “female Mozart” with “female Jack the Ripper,” she builds a deliberately grotesque symmetry. The provocation is the point. Genius, in her framing, is not a polite merit badge withheld from women; it’s an extreme, high-variance phenomenon that also produces monsters. If you want the outliers at the top, you have to accept the outliers at the bottom.
The subtext is a broadside against a certain kind of cultural progress narrative - the belief that equal opportunity should automatically yield equal distribution of “greatness” across groups. Paglia’s underlying bet is biological and temperamental: that male risk-taking, aggression, and obsessive single-mindedness are statistically more common, and that these traits can metabolize into either sublime art or grotesque violence. Mozart and Ripper become rhetorical bookends for the same engine: transgressive drive.’
Good reply...
T has adverse reactions in some people...
Give T to females and the same adverse reactions can occur.
The thing is, without T and all of its downsides human society would not exist....
About the only time a male gets to see the world without the powerful mental effects of T are in the refractory period just after orgasm... if we understood the mechanism of this we could use it to good result. This refractory period shuts down sexual drive and is likely a mammalian protective reflex to shut down mating drive once it is no longer helpful.