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Philosophy and Political science

June 19, 2026; Cambridge, UK: X International Scientific and Practical Conference «EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF TODAY: INTERSECTORAL ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCES»


LUX [AND/OR LOOKS]MAXXING FOR MEN AND LUXMINIMIZING FOR WOMEN: SELF-IMPROVEMENT, SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT, AND THE DISCREDITING OF NON-WORKING WOMEN—LEFTIST SOCIAL PSEUDO-MOTIVES AND THE NEW ASOCIAL DYSDARWINISM


DOI
https://doi.org/10.36074/logos-19.06.2026.041
Published
30.06.2026

Abstract

Unlike Pygmalion, whose ivory Galatea required Aphrodite’s breath to quicken into flesh, or Victor Frankenstein, whose sutured creature taught its horrified maker the meaning of monstrous birth, men were long trapped in a patriarchal myth that declared them incapable of parturition: unable to “birth” anything, whether biologically, socially, or through the labour of self-transformation.

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