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Posted by Chocolic on December 3, 2007, 2:18 am
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betrays, in all, the narrow Space
between the Surface and Centre of their mimic Wit . . . In Fact, what is
all their Discourse but Froth? What inspires it but Venom? In what does
their Sprightliness appear, but in empty Puns, Conundrums, Rebukes,
trifling Politics or mischievous Lies? They who shine most among them,
are such as have nothing to entertain you with but Scandal, Indecency,
Hypocrisy, or Impiety. What is their Wit but a mere See-Saw from one
Inconsistency to another? Their Conversation is ever screw'd up to
Bombast, when it should be familiar; or sunk into Meanness, when the
Subject they presume to meddle with is sublime. Where they should be
silent, they are as forward to prate, as they are remiss in speaking on
proper Occasions. How ill-bestow'd then on these fantastic Things is the
Beauty we admire in them! And if it was bestow'd on them by Nature to
decoy us into a Commerce with them, for the Benefit of Propogation; must
it not still shock our Reason when we consider it accompanied only with
Parts which we can reap no Benefit from, nor place any Confidence in?
And what Assistance can we hope from their false Wit, as groveling as
the Pride it inspires them with?
- Anon, "Man Superior to Woman", 1739
You women employ more thought, memory, and application to be Fools, than
would serve to make you wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I
cannot conceive you to be Human Creatures, but a sort of Species hardly
a degree above a Monkey.
- Jonathan Swift, "A letter to a young lady on her marriage"
- The undoubted superiority of the male sex in intellectual and creative
achievement is related to their greater endowment of aggression. . . .
Even when women have been given the opportunity to cultivate the arts
and sciences, remarkably few have produced original works of outstanding
quality.
- Women never reason, and therefore are (comparatively)
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