tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406544533309218497.post5178677823669259253..comments2023-05-08T12:59:48.455+01:00Comments on Vagina Dentata: When we’re talking about geniuses we’re not talking about youNaomi Mchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033949035632165385noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406544533309218497.post-43080007723508252252009-08-17T15:59:41.262+01:002009-08-17T15:59:41.262+01:00Excellent post. Einstein famously refused to becom...Excellent post. Einstein famously refused to become a politician (he was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of Israel).<br /><br />Rightly so because I don't think he would have made an especially good politician, certainly he would not have been as good a politician as he was a physicist.<br /><br />Although it's not terribly PC, in my experience, people are who "geniuses" in scientific fields are if anything less adept than average at the kind of social skills that you need to succeed in politics.<br /><br />It takes a certain kind of mind to do what Einstein did, it takes another kind of mind to win at politics. There may be more male Einsteins, but that doesn't mean there should be more male politicians.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.com