The Clog from OzNietzsche & Women's Sexual Problems...
September 15th 2006 03:18
“When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something wrong with her sexual organs.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Geeze Nietzsche, get caught saying that in this modern era and you’ll be flattened by feminists everywhere! Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900 so this quote probably didn’t cause any controversy as it was spoken in the 1800’s. But even so, just what was Nietzsche getting at when he said this? Did he believe that academically driven women don’t desire sex? Or that these women must actually have men’s sexual organs as it is only men that can become scholars?
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in the idea of "life-affirmation," where he questions the purpose of all doctrines which drain life's energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. So this might mean that he was against higher education and he probably was even more horrified that women would undertake such a useless endeavour.
Another quote which could support this existential view of the world is this one:
• “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”
Here’s a pretty controversial quote by Nietzsche who doesn’t seem to approve of priests:
• “As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies--but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in the world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.”
Gee, Nietzsche must have been a pretty interesting character!
Geeze Nietzsche, get caught saying that in this modern era and you’ll be flattened by feminists everywhere! Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900 so this quote probably didn’t cause any controversy as it was spoken in the 1800’s. But even so, just what was Nietzsche getting at when he said this? Did he believe that academically driven women don’t desire sex? Or that these women must actually have men’s sexual organs as it is only men that can become scholars?
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in the idea of "life-affirmation," where he questions the purpose of all doctrines which drain life's energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. So this might mean that he was against higher education and he probably was even more horrified that women would undertake such a useless endeavour.
Another quote which could support this existential view of the world is this one:
• “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”
Here’s a pretty controversial quote by Nietzsche who doesn’t seem to approve of priests:
• “As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies--but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in the world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.”
Gee, Nietzsche must have been a pretty interesting character!
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Comment by Justin
There's a close resemblance of the quotes to some of Freuds views, which if I didn't know slightly better, would confidently call them both total crackpots! lol
Comment by Ahmed
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Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
I think what I just said was a bit ambiguous...
Comment by RachDegab
Or maybe he just wanted to spice things up a bit and thought the word 'sexual' would generate more internet traffic in 2006...? lol
RachDegab
Comment by Ahmed
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Just because it was a while ago doesn't mean people where that much different.
I mean have you seen renaissance pornography? People think sex has reached a climax now, but let me tell you, they had some sick twisted ideas back in those days... and paint's to draw them with.
Comment by RachDegab
(try and use clean words!)
RachDegab
Comment by Ahmed
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
If you look at paintings and these things of those times, even the michaelangelo statue, WOWHA, TOO MUCH DETAIL MATE!
Comment by Adrian
Philosophy Blog
Nietzsche is often quite ironic, or can easily be read that way. So it might well be a pro-feminist, not an anti-feminist, quote...
Comment by Anonymous
cursory look on the net: nothing but the bare quote.