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Carla told me to read this so I’m reading this

What if Picasso had been born a girl? Would Senor Ruiz have paid as much
attention or stimulated as much ambition for achievement in a little Pablita?

Most men, despite lip service to equality,
are reluctant to give up this "natural" order of things in which their advantages
are so great

The assumptions behind such a question are varied in range and sophistication,
running anywhere from "scientifically proven" demonstrations of the inability
of human beings with wombs rather than penises to create anything significant,
to relatively open-minded wonderment that women, despite so many years of
near-equality--have
still not achieved anything of exceptional significance in the visual arts