The more intelligent the woman, the more likely to be mired in delusion. Precisely because the woman cannot imagine that she is mired in delusion. . . It’s as if a kind of amnesia seeps inexorably into the woman’s brain, so strong is her opposition to knowing the truth.
Joyce Carol Oates, Fox
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You know Kid, sometimes I think that you deliberately roll a live grenade in here just to see what happens ;-D
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I just feel so betrayed that this author is marketed as some sort of a literary Kamala Harris when she’s the exact opposite.
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The church fathers would agree, though. Not just women.
Being smart doesn’t make you honest, but it does make you SUPER great at rationalizing your own bad behavior.
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Of course. The novel concentrates on women because it’s subject is female responsibility for this social chaos. But absolutely men do it.
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“The more intelligent the woman, the more likely to be mired in delusion.”
Perhaps, most reliable tests of IQ are basically measures of pattern recognition; yet a majority of supposed intelligent Western women seem to believe that they are somehow oppressed by men. Despite the Birkenhead Drill, the Titanic sinking, the Cajun Navy, and other images of men struggling to maintain or restore social function under horrendous weather conditions, damn, but it really must take complete delusion to maintain that ridiculous illusion.
“The novel concentrates on women because it’s subject is female responsibility for this social chaos.”
The idea that female emotion rather than reason results in danger, in chaos, is a widespread religious concept or belief throughout most, if not all, civilizations. The West gradually differed only because of the image of Mary, the kindly, holy mother of God. But at the moment, one has to say that our experiment of universal suffrage doesn’t bode well ;-D
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