Psychology Today | 03.07.2026 03:33
As far back as I can remember, my mother punctuated conversations by bringing up women’s genetic inferiority to men. On cuisine, she’d say great chefs were always male, because women “didn’t have the genes to be great.” When I majored in English, my mother argued that there were no female Shakespeares, as “only men had the genes to be a genius.” This genetic principle applied in music, science, art.
