Is being a genius compatible with being feminine?
'Feminine' has a social quality—soothing conflicts, caring for feelings.
'Genius' requires(?) bucking social—doing things that are 'crazy', violating conventions.
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Replying to @reasonisfun @sentientist and
Dependa on the type of genius The social concept carries connotations of aloofness, attention to detail and eye for beauty in whatever is pursued. Imagine a brilliant musician. Can she be feminine while being essentially oblivious to people around her? I think so.
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Replying to @SamoBurja @reasonisfun and
Imagining her a mathematician or biologist seems to work. Aloof and otherworldly rather than combative seems a genius compatible with the classic feminine social concept. (Apollonian rather than Iconoclastic type).
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Replying to @SamoBurja @reasonisfun and
Speaking again on social concepts as they are rather than normatively: There even exists a seductive type of female genius that isn't defeated by her lover intellectually: Imagine her a mysterious intellectual force. This type is perhaps a little darker and Morganic. But hot.
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Replying to @SamoBurja @reasonisfun and
Femininity & masculinity are deceptively difficult to pin. There are many potential axes to place them on that aren’t quite right. I lean toward Jordan Peterson’s conception of femininity as a quite (playfully) combative, highly discerning, highly social organizing force
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The mysteriousness of femininity under this model is particularly interesting because it *isn’t* owed to chaos
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Replying to @webdevMason @SamoBurja and
Mencken likewise associated femininity with discernment and called intelligence (aloofness, questioning, sharpness) a feminine quality
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