sappho, murasaki, pericles mistress, sylvia plath, mary shelly, alice walker,julia alverez,r.s. gwynn, diana krawl,,,they are out there, though some could argue not composers or more preformers , but what really is genius, introversion by alienation by the female of the species? Paglia seems to be grasping at a spurious corelation, i can see it as being one small factor in arguably both catagories by exclusion, but not the determining factor for what is considerd genius,, if that were the case are not then all serial killers geinuses? and or all geniuses serial killers?