The misogynist neurosis argument against women contradicts itself

Evidence

Some misogynists affirm a bit more concretely that because women are neurotic, they will never create anything of value: but these same people often declare that genius is a neurosis. In any case, the example of Proust shows clearly enough that psychophysiological imbalance does not mean powerlessness or mediocrity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1952

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• XREF: The self-contradicting double standard echoes similar rhetorical moves Beauvoir exposes throughout the book, and connects to later feminist critiques of the genius-as-madness trope. — connects to: Refusing to acknowledge a woman’s own ethical framing paradoxically strengthens the misogyny feminists oppose — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2242