On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:11:50 -0800, "Society"
 wrote:

>
>"Mr. F. Le Mur"  wrote in message
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>>
>> Grizzlie Antagonist reported...
>> >
>> >   http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050220_summers.htm
>> >   The Larry Summers Show Trial
>> >   By Steve Sailer
>> >   [...]
>> >   As a reviewer of nonfiction books,
>> >   I would probably pick Camille Paglia's
>> >   Sexual Personae as the single most
>> >   brilliant work by anyone, male or female,
>> >   over the last 15 years. After that, though,
>> >   the pickings get slim. [...]
>>
>> "There [is] no female [Mozart] because there [is]
>> no female Jack-the-Ripper[]." - Camille Paglia

Thanks for the correction.

>
>That infamous and often repeated remark by
>Camille Paglia in her book _Sexual Personae_
>has been debunked by Patricia Pearson

Debunked?

>in her book _When She Was Bad_ (Viking
>Penguin, 1997)
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140243887/thebacklash
>in the chapter titled "Woman As Predator"
>(pp. 146-175) which begins with that Paglia
>quote and follows immediately with this one:
>
>   This is my ambition: to have killed more people,
>   more helpless people, than any man or woman
>   has ever killed.

Hitler? Lenin? Mao?

Sure, there's female mass-murderers, but Paglia's
(mis)quote sums up the fact that men dominate at
the extremes - of anything.

>
>   Jane Toppan, convicted of poisoning nearly
>   one hundred patients in a Connecticut nursing

I'm pretty sure she was convicted of killing four
people, not 100, a number claimed in a Popmedia
article.

>   home shortly after Jack the Ripper killed
>   five prostitutes in London.
>
>There are plenty of female Jack the Rippers
>(a fact that contradicts plenty of feminist bunk
>claiming women are the morally superior sex)
>but no abundance of female Mozarts or other
>sorts of female geniuses (a fact that contradicts
>plenty of feminist bunk claiming women would
>produce female geniuses if only here>).

AFAIK, Jack the Ripper was never caught.



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