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Anonymous Mon Jan 1 11:35:03 2018 No.10476999 [Reply] [Original]

It is only the woman whose intellect is clouded by her sexual instinct that could give that lanky, narrow-hipped, broad-shouldered, and long-legged race the name of the fair sex; for the entire beauty of the sex is based on this instinct. One would be more justified in calling them the unaesthetic sex than the beautiful. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art have they any real or true sense and susceptibility, and it is mere mockery on their part, in their desire to please, if they affect any such thing.

This makes them incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything, and the reason for it is, I fancy, as follows. A woman strives to get direct mastery over things either by understanding them or by compulsion. But a man is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a womman; all his direct mastery being limited her him alone. Therefore it lies in man’s nature to look upon everything only as a means for winning women, and his interest in anything else is always a simulated one, a mere roundabout way to gain his ends, consisting of coquetry and pretence. Hence Rousseau said, Les hommes, en général, n’aiment aucun art, ne se connoissent à aucun et n’ont aucun génie (
men, in general, do not like any art, do not know each other and have no genius). Every one who can see through a sham must have found this to be the case. One need only watch the way they behave at a concert, the opera, or the play; the childish simplicity, for instance, with which they keep on chattering during the finest passages in the greatest masterpieces. If it is true that the Greeks forbade men to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something. In our day it would be more appropriate to substitute taceat mulier in theatro for taceat mulier in ecclesia; and this might perhaps be put up in big letters on the curtain.

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