Of Women by Arthur Schopenhauer part 2

pessimism

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[TheLusseyran]

@ParisSpleen74 "You don't have a girlfriend and can't get girls so ner ner" lol the base irony of it!

Please lets have some more comments from you, they serve as footnotes to back up his lecture on the nature of women.

[jmckinl1ongaku]

No wonder he was single all his life...and miserable.

[fredbloggs02]

@loai050... Alas not normal.. Thank God for that! Balanced... Who learns anything from blessedly balanced people? He who defends all, defends nothing. He had the courage for his own thoughts despite the veil of political correctness. I don't object to your finding that distasteful, or your interpretation but have the courage to call it what it is. Please don't stand behind him, please for my sake and his be the exception; don't listen to him.

[fredbloggs02]

@loai050 I'd already read Shopehauerr's essay on women, not that those were his only thoughts. He must have lifted it from a different translation, or a text I'm yet to read of his. The way I read it, he explicitly stated women were the less intelligent sex, which is something I don't agree with myself, not that I change the words in his mouth, any more than he should from mine. He spoke of the "exception" but in general disregarded both men and women in general.

[loai050]

@fredbloggs02 I wouldn't commit to them winning by a storm either ,I'm sure there'd be gender differences in different areas , I don't thin the differences are significant enough to brand women as less intelligent . As to conscience, women are more religious than men, are less likely to cheat , murder etc, I'd say they'd win by a storm on that front. The Schop. quote posted by daviesman90 above is worth a read - it put's a lot of the negative statements in a cultural perspective.

[fredbloggs02]

@loai050 Perhaps honesty has more to do with it than intelligence although; if I were to accept any standard measure of intelligence, I'd not commit to the position of women winning by a storm... Perhaps a lack culpability for themselves has more to do with why women have been oppressed, because they couldn't be controlled by men, because laws today make use of an individual's guilt and women are so made(in general) without a conscience for themselves.