Art Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Without comment, I offer up this now rather famous statement from Camille
>Paglia:
>
>"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."

I once read a writer who suggested a future society where all genes for
criminal behaviour had been taken away from the chromosomes (I doubt this
is possible, but anyway), and in the same time all creative artists
disappeared.

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Judith Zaimont <[log in to unmask]>

>Education: Women composers exist in the thousands across the centuries and
>countries.  Until the latter-middle of the 20th century, however, they were
>not (in the US) admitted to conservatories/university music departments as
>declared majors in composition (or in conducting).  ...

This thread (that also has appeared on CLASSM-L) gives me a haddock!  I
can well be ready to believe that there are some (theyre not many) great
male composers/chessplayers etc and almost no female such due to that the
sexes brains are differently structured.  It makes me irritated when I see
everybody ensure that this can impossibly be truth, and ensure that it has
to do with longtime discrimination and so on, as they seems afraid to take
any other standpoint.  I wonder; if it now is so that the female brain (in
most cases) is not successful in composing music; does this make women
lesser worth humans for you? Not to me.

Mats Norrman
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