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11/23/11(Wed)06:08 No. 117794041 File1322046534.jpg -(146 KB, 576x635, ThatFeel when Schopenhauer.jpg ) >women >capable of making or appreciating art pick one>It
is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that
could give the name of the fair sex to that under-sized,
narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race; for the whole
beauty of the sex is bound up with this impulse. Instead of calling them
beautiful, there would be more warrant for describing women as the
un-aesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art,
have they really and truly any sense or susceptibility; it is a mere
mockery if they make a pretence of it in order to assist their endeavor
to please. Hence, as a result of this, they are incapable of taking a
purely objective interest in anything; and the reason of it seems to me
to be as follows. A man tries to acquire direct mastery over things,
either by understanding them, or by forcing them to do his will. But a
woman is always and everywhere reduced to obtaining this mastery
indirectly, namely, through a man; and whatever direct mastery she may
have is entirely confined to him. And so it lies in woman's nature to
look upon everything only as a means for conquering man; and if she
takes an interest in anything else, it is simulated--a mere roundabout
way of gaining her ends by coquetry, and feigning what she does not
feel. Hence, even Rousseau declared: Women have, in general, no love for
any art; they have no proper knowledge of any; and they have no genius.