Why There are no Female Mozarts

October 2, 2010

I wondered, briefly, why of the past top 100 scientists there are only three females; Marie Curie, Lynn Margulis, and Gertrude Belle Elion.

Then I wondered, briefly, why there are no females in the past top 100 classical music composers. Where are the female Mozarts?

Why the absence of females in past arts and science may indicate the envy females have for males today. I believe women are very envious of the past accomplishments of men.

Envy is a deadly sin. If you cannot have what someone has then you are willing to destroy what that person has. The constant harangue today of how bad men are and how virtuous women are, and the constant harangue of how women were oppressed in the past, as if men in the past were free, is a symptom of this envy women have.

I believe the simply explanation for great scientists and artists of the past being males lies in the bell curve of intelligence. The male intelligence curve has geniuses on one end and morons on the opposite end. Female intelligence curve in not as flat as the male. Female intelligences is bunched together in the normal steep middle. Females have very few high intelligence but they also have very few low intelligence.

I think this can be explained by primitive evolution. If a female was of low intelligence her offspring would not have survived, nor would her genes.

If a normal female had a baby boy of low intelligence the mother would have practiced infanticide, as in most societies, but some mothers would have seen to the survival of a boy or girl with low intelligence. If the girl of low intelligence did produce children they would likely not have survived for long.

I suspect any high IQ female in primitive times would have often been pregnant and too busy with child rearing to create music and study science.  

In the 21st century the intelligence of the western countries is declining because females with high intelligence are having less babies.   Single women who are uneducated are having babies and the father is not around, thus the baby is deprived of a good mother and father to teach it many things.

Another reason most women did not have careers in the past was she was pregnant most of her adult life. She did not have time nor the desire to compose music or study the sciences. There were no careers in the past. There was only farming and war. A few skills could be traded at the local market, but there were no careers.

Compare that to the career choices women have today. She has the birth control pill, created by a male, that allows her freedom to choose a thousand bureaucratic and talking careers; public relations, communications, etc, that all allow the female to excel.

Technology, not laws, freed women. A small woman today can fly a jumbo jet because of the technology. A small woman today can plow a field with an 8 row air conditioned tractor. A few decades ago plowing was done with mules and horses plowing only one row.

Vladimir Horowitz, the late great classical pianist once was told by an admirer, "I would give my life to play like you." Horowitz replied, "I did"! The point is a man has to make something of himself through business, war, or other talents in order to find a mate. A woman does not have to spend her life learning a talent to attract a mate. All she has to do is smile demurely at a man and she is taken care of.

Women claim to have been oppressed in the past. They became liberated in the twentieth century.

Why did they wait so long? Did men free them? Why now and not 5,000 years ago? Why did women wait so long to ask for freedom? If they could demand it now why not demand it in the ancient past? Would it have mattered to women if the Civil Rights Act had been passed in 1865 instead of 1965? Would she have ridden for hours in a wagon with her children in all kinds of weather over dirt roads to vote?

Women had the evolutionary genes to produce and care for children. Without their maternal drives and contributions the human race would likely be extinct. They should be proud of their contributions. They should not listen or cooperate with the misandric man hating institutions that exist today.

In the future women will live more like men. There will be many females Mozarts in the future.

Charles Tolleson
October 2, 2010