Why are most “geniuses” men?
Watch out for male (and female) tears in the comments
If you invent the methods and tools of measurement and you not only own all those tools but you’ve convinced everyone these are the only tools worth using, well… you also own the standards those measurements construct.
That’s how someone like, say, Jean-Michel Basquiat becomes a “genius.” You know, the dude who once remarked: “I’m a famous artist now and I don’t know how to draw. Do you think I should be concerned?”
Seriously, THIS is what’s called genius:
And this and this. I’ll stop there but, it’s no wonder that modern art is such a useful money laundering scheme.
Let’s get back to male “geniuses.”
Consider how a random game like chess is created and designated a powerful barometer of intelligence. Ban or dissuade girls from playing for centuries and boom: There are no female world champions — ever.
The closed loop of a self-fulfilling prophecy is sealed shut.
It’s how almost all the Nobel Prizes go to men. How many women “win” such awards? Here’s a sampling:
Physics: less than 2 percent (5 females of 225 awardees)
Chemistry: 4 percent (8/191)
Literature: 14 percent (17/119)
Physiology or Medicine: 6 percent (13/230)
Music, science, medicine, philosophy, film, sociology, economics, psychology, medicine, sports, art, etc. — all evaluated by male-created standards.
Even in those rare cases when a woman is deemed a “genius,” it’s always within the context of patriarchal guidelines and history.
The best The Powers That Shouldn’t Be™ can ever offer us is longer chains and bigger cages. Meanwhile, we deserve nothing less than full autonomy.
Before I get incensed comments from men who have willfully missed the point of this post, please allow me to sum up:
We live in a diabolical matrix of calculated deceptions, fallacies, and illusions that we’re relentlessly programmed to accept without question.
If we remain irrationally attached to such malevolent manipulation, it hinders our ability to become sovereign, step into our intrinsic power, and be part of a cosmic shift.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)
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A turning point for me on this was reading about the construction of the Gregorian 12 month calender. A professor showed a stone tablet from ancient times which had markings in 28 day increments. He said this was "man's first use of the calendar system." MAN's first use? What sex would be interested in marking increments in 28 day counts?
nobel prizes are no grade of genius IMO. I consider the mothers of old, with 8 and 10 and more children and no washing machines, no microwaves, only a stove and with a little luck, a fridge, a genius. I want to see a man do the household like that. The worst case of nobel prize is Nurse Budwig, later Dr, who developed the Budwig protocol - her boss got the nobel prize, even though she was proposed several times in the 1930s. How many scientists got nobel prizes for something developed by females in their labs? I also remember the females behind the Apollo project, mathematicians. Did they ever get a prize?