What about the female geniuses that do exist? What about Maya Angelou (author/poet), Emily Dickenson (poet), Rachel Fuller Brown (inventor: first antifungal antibotic), Madam Curie (found radium, furthered x-rays), Edith Flanigan (considered one of the most inventive chemists EVER-invented a petroleum refining method), Stephanie Louise Kwolek (invented Kevlar), Ada Lovelace (predicted computer software and electronic forms of music in 1849), Ann Tuskamoto (helped to invent the way to isolate human stem cells), Harriet Tubman (writer, underground railroad organizer, etc), Mary Walton (invented several anti-pollution devices)? And there are MANY more... Some of them named above in another post. Is she saying that these women were just obsessive? I like to think of them as women who saw something that needed to change, and then did so (as to the inventors) or saw something beautiful/painful/hateful/exciting/... whatever, and wanted to tell the world about it. And I'd like to point out that Wolfgang (Mozart) himself felt his sister's abilities when it came to music were equal to his. I think she could be considered the female Mozart, don't you? lol.

I don't know that you can say all serial killers are actually geniuses.Just because there is a correlation between fewer female geniuses and fewer female serial killers does not mean that they are related. One of the first things taught in EVERY psychology classe I've taken is that correlation is not causation-and correlation is not an absolute relation, either. There are way too many variables in this to really say that. Some are, I would agree... but I wouldn't say all or probably even most, personally. I think they are just lucky (lucky for getting away with it for so long, not for their mental disease!!!) and sociopaths who were really messed up as a kid. Though I admit that using the definition of genius as seeing the world differently would definitely mean that ALL serial killers are geniuses.

The last thing I'd like to say, is that if genius has to do with looking at the world differently, rather than intelligence, than why does a genius need to DO something extraordinary? And, then how does that differ from certain mental retardation disorders? For instance: Autism. Autistic children view the world incredibly differently than "normal" people. I've worked with Autistic kids and honestly I think their view of the world is amazing, whether I can see it or not.