@Mame,
There are such things as mental attributes Mamie. I think Freud defined neurotic as when mental attitudes overpower genetic determinants. It was what he meant by saying that civilisation is a sickness. Reich called it character armour.
A lot of well brought up ladies have been given a horror of the thought of gold-digging, for what it implies presumably, and will deny gold-digging themselves until they are blue in the face.
I don't suppose you ever saw the Footballer's Wives series. It was very popular but was taken off air after a few weeks with some paltry excuse. We all knew the real reason. Joan Collins appeared in it but she wasn't very good.
Anthony M Ludovici, in his book Woman: A Vindication, makes the point clearly enough. On the page headed "Vital Vulgarity" there is this in discussing the struggling artist, the struggling scientist and the penniless politician--
Quote:Their spiritual gifts count as nothing, and since woman has no flair for greatness, and cannot with certainty pick out the great man before the world has applauded him to the echo, it is only when they have become a material success that the female of their own or a superior station in life will look at him.
Now this is obviously a very useful and very vital instinct in women. From the standpoint of the species nothing could be more laudable than this anxious preoccupation with the future of the offspring. But it amounts to this, that by their nature women can have no primary concern about those things that bear the hallmark of cultivation, of refinement and of greatness, and that, therefore, they are essentially vulgar.
His italics.
That's why I prefer vulgar women. I would need to be as phoney as a six dollar bill to have a conversation with a lady who had not read that book. Chickenshit women daren't read it.
Ludovici traces the obsession with cash (see ads on TV and in newspapers) to the ascendency of women in western culture. I would go further. It will see us off which he only hints at.
He tells of his time when he was private secretary to Auguste Rodin. Rodin complained to him that when he was making 20 grand a year, a very great deal in those days, women flocked to his studio and his house but that when he was poor (but virile) in his grubby studio in La Rue des Fourneaux they left him in peace.
Quote:That's a very shallow, narrow , 2-dimensional, limited view of women.
It is not. It is a scientific, intellectual appraisal of the facts. That's why I'm opposed to the teaching of evolution to unformed minds.
Henry Miller famously said "What I want now is a woman without the slightest spark of decency."
