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One would think that I have said it all...I mean the stuff about why I truly believe that women are the better humans.

But last year I got joined by an equally vociferous fellow femme who does not mince her words either and greatly bolstered my list of arguments.  

Clearly everyone is aware that 95% of prison inmates are male (and that’s a worldwide average!!), which alone should suffice... And, hey, who invented the atomic bomb and dropped it (ooops), who reaps havoc on civilians whenever they feel justified (Eritrea, Syria, Iraq, Rwanda, Congo, Sebrenica, Vietnam, and the list goes on and on and on....)?!    

In her most recent book (Berlin 2014), “Warum die Sache schief geht” (Why it’ll all go down the drain), the author, Karen Duve, summarizes research from forensics to psychology that reveals that the same qualities, which catapult a human into the upper echelons of power and status, are usually the same ones that get them to be locked away: a charming (often mistakenly taken as “charismatic”) self-presentation that serves as a cover-up for ruthless, selfish actions.  

The clinical term for this type of personality is “psychopath” - someone who fools others into believing that they are superior and therefore entitled to anything they want.  

1% of human beings show distinct psychopathic traits - over 90% of them are male.  Very tellingly, according to Karen Duve’s research, the proportion of psychopathic personality types is disproportionately high among business and government leaders - leaving you to wonder, whom are the rest of us following?  

The class bully!