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Posted by Sheri U. Raisbeck on December 3, 2007, 12:14 am
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general tendency. Women are not "physiologically weak- minded," and I
cannot share the view that women of conspicuous ability are to be
regarded as morbid specimens.
From a moral point of view one should only be glad to recognize in these
women (who are always more masculine than the rest) the exact opposite
of degeneration, that is to say, it must be acknowledged that they have
made a step forward and gained a victory over themselves; from the
biological standpoint they are just as little or as much phenomena of
degeneration as are womanish men (unethically considered). Intermediate
sexual forms are normal, not pathological phenomena, in all classes of
organisms, and their appearance is no proof of physical decadence.
Woman is neither high-minded nor low-minded, strong-minded nor
weak-minded. She is the opposite of all these. Mind cannot be predicated
of her at all; she is mindless. That, however, does not imply
weak-mindedness in the ordinary sense of the term, the absence of the
capacity to "get her bearings" in ordinary everyday life. Cunning,
calculation, "cleverness," are much more usual and constant in the woman
than in the man, if there be a personal selfish end in view. A woman is
never so stupid as a man can be.
But has woman no meaning at all? Has she no general purpose in the
scheme of the world? Has she not a destiny; and, in spite of all her
senselessness and emptiness, a significance in the universe?
Has she a mission, or is her existence an accident and an absurdity?
In order to understand her meaning, it is necessary to start from a
phenomenon which, although old and well recognized, has never received
its pr
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