The MalaCast

There is No Female Mozart. Or Jobs. Or Edison. Or Einstein.


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At Bennington, I would go to a faculty meeting and be aware that everyone hated me. The men were appalled by a strong, loud woman. But I went to this auto shop and the men there thought I was cute. "Oh, there's that Professor Paglia from the college." The real men, men who work on cars, find me cute. They are not frightened by me, no matter how loud I am. But the men at the college were terrified because they are eunuchs, and I threatened every goddamned one of them.  -Camile Paglia

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts  -Camile Paglia

I'm going to talk about how women are different from men.  In some ways better, in some ways worse.

Knowing these differences can save your life savings one day, fwiw (looking at you Elizabeth Holmes)

“For boys it’s very much about telling a story of the good guy killing the villain. There’s a winner and a loser,” Tania Missad, Mattel's director of global consumer insights, said. “Girls wanted the action and the battle, but would tell us: ‘Why does the good girl have to kill the villain? Can’t they be friends in the end?’"

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.  -Camile Paglia

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The MalaCastBy Adam Mala

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