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Rating: "Woman is physiologically deficient, it's a simple scientific observation resulting from rigorous analysis and research...
Woman must remain within the limits of nature which wants her subdued, slave, and subordinate...
When facing professional objectives, a woman is inclined, more by nature than by social conditioning, not to invest all her energy into her career...
Very few are the cases of excellence of Woman in the Visual Arts, in Philosophy, and in the field of discovery in general. She is better suited in the field of words, memories, and lived or imagined emotions...
By her Nature, she tends to organize, chisel, reorder, and calculate, making her an excellent counterpart to Man who generally dares more with greater boldness and irresponsibility..."
These and other pearls of wisdom (!?) are contained in this book published by Castelvecchi (1998) "L'inferiorità mentale della donna" by Julius Paul Moebius with an almost useless introduction by Filippo Scòzzari.
I thought this was an ironic and absurd little book, and instead it is a terribly serious and at times hallucinatory treatise by this esteemed Dr. P.J. Moebius who lived from 1853 to 1907 (a dark and quite neglected era for Woman in general).
80% of it states absurdities and spouts bizarre theories of pure misogyny... on the remaining 20% I can only agree with him on many fronts (highly colluded ones, moreover)... but reducing the discussion to "men and women" while neglecting the "person" aspect seems to me a sterile and rather debatable exercise. Good only as a momentary vent for broken hearts but for the rest... it is all quite unjustifiable, especially today when women have assumed an enviable role and awareness, both in civil society and in various fields (from sports to politics and social domains).
There was a need for less barracks sensationalism and to better motivate the author's boasted theses instead of collecting catchy phrases and jumbled theses just to scandalize.
Another wasted opportunity, in short.
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