{"id":3194,"date":"2014-02-15T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T03:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2014-02-17T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:24:38","slug":"deadlier-than-the-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/deadlier-than-the-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlier Than The Male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This post was first published June 3, 2013. Since then, the guilty verdict against Amanda Knox has been reinstated. (She\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2014\/02\/12\/amanda-knox-posts-sign-declaring-we-are-innocent-after-guilty-verdict-reinstated-against-her-and-former-boyfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\">insists she is innocent<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history many \u2013 if not most \u2013 cultures have perpetuated the myth of the evil woman. Television presenter, journalist and bestselling crime novelist Tara Moss discusses evil women, female criminals and the demonisation of the female gender: from Eve and Pandora to Elizabeth Bathory, Amanda Knox and Paula Broadwell for <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelercentre.com\/videos\/video\/lunchbox-soapbox-tara-moss-deadlier-than-the-male-the-myth-of-the-evil-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wheeler Centre<\/a>, in her talk <em>Deadlier Than The Male &#8211; The Myth of the Evil Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4O_1d9jjNRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>Women are a necessary evil<\/em>, the famous proverb says.<\/p>\n<p>Pandora &#8211; the first woman on earth, created by a male god (Hephaestus) on the order of a male god (Zeus), as a wife for a male (Epimetheus) \u2013 was perhaps not the ideal first love.\u00a0She famously opened that box &#8211; in fact a jar &#8211; back in the days of ancient Greece, letting all the evil into the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>From her is the race of women and female kind: \u2028of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who \u2028live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, \u2028no helpmates in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.<\/em><em> <\/em>&#8211; From Hesiod\u2019s <em>Theogony <\/em>(8<sup>th<\/sup>-7<sup>th<\/sup> century BC)<\/p>\n<p>Eve \u2013 the first woman on earth, created by a male god from a man\u2019s rib as a gift for a male (Adam) \u2013 was also not without flaws. She sought the Tree of Knowledge and famously bit into that apple in the Garden of Eden, ending Paradise and letting all the evil into the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Genesis 3:13.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if Adam had met some Greeks, he would have known what was coming.<\/p>\n<p>Eve and Pandora were the first bad girls, and ever since, women have been linked in the popular consciousness with the concept of sin and their sins with sex.<\/p>\n<p>Mae West once quipped that there are \u2018no good girls gone wrong, only bad girls found out.\u2019 And she has a point, if you consider that Eve\u2019s sin was to \u2018eat from the Tree of knowledge.\u2019 The Good Girl standard then, of passivity, obedience, lack of curiosity about flora and fauna, (including speaking snakes) and a general disinterest in knowledge, would surely make being \u2018a good girl\u2019 a near impossibility. And not much fun, by the sounds of it.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe women to be morally weak, as did Freud, who wrote that we possess \u2018little sense of justice\u2019, or the Greek philosopher Plato, who in Timaeus offers that women are the reincarnation of men who have lived evil lives, and as such, are morally flawed\u2026well, no wonder women can\u2019t be trusted, and men need to be ashamed of their emotions, as they so often lead them to women and therefore to their own demise.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock Holmes \u2013 that popular fictional character of great logic and high intelligence, was very clear on the matter of that other gender:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWomen are never to be entirely trusted, not the best of them,\u201d <\/em>he warned<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hear the rest at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wheelercentre.com\/videos\/video\/lunchbox-soapbox-tara-moss-deadlier-than-the-male-the-myth-of-the-evil-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wheeler Centre<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"3194\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout history many \u2013 if not most \u2013 cultures have perpetuated the myth of the evil woman. 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