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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: nihil who wrote (31290)2/20/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Um- I would have to say that MOST generals I am familiar with, through the history books, have been heterosexual. The machismo and arrogance necessary to be an aggressive military leader dovetails neatly with the aggressive super male- but I would say they probably don't make great family men in terms of their fidelity.

Now, on to art. Some of the greatest artists I am familiar with were heterosexual- Picasso loved women, lots of them, lots and lots of them- and so did many other absolute geniuses of art- they probably could not have done so well had they not loved women and the female form so much (randy Mozart? a great lover of female flesh by all accounts). I think one can see in many of the nude paintings of women from the Rennaissance an erotic and passionate love of women on the part of the sculptors and painters. And many of the great landscape painters were good heterosexual family men- I know the same is true for many of the great Dutch masters. Brueghal, for example, had a very happy marriage by all accounts- and I consider him a genius. A supportive loving muse can be a great asset to a great man- perhaps muses are hard to find today, but in the past history has been replete with them.

Better to say that genius can spring from anywhere- it is not bounded by race or sex or sexual proclivity. It is silly to try to assign genius to any particular well spring, or to go about mining the past for geniuses that fit one's particular exegesis- because exceptions will always be found because genius IS perverse.
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