Reading Schopenhauer on Women (for the first time actually),

I discovered this:

"...Nature has not destined them, as the weaker sex, to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie...Nature has provided woman for her protection and defence with the faculty of dissimulation...It is natural for a woman to dissemble at every opportunity; and they feel that in so doing they are only making use of their rights. Therefore a woman who is perfectly truthful and does not dissemble is perhaps an impossibility.  This is why they see through dissimulation in others so easily; therefore it is not advisable to attempt it with them...In a court of justice women are more often to be found guilty of perjury than men.  It is indeed to be questioned whether they should be allowed to take an oath at all. From time to time there are repeated cases of ladies, who want for nothing, secretly pocketing and taking away things from shop counters. "

Actually there's a lot more even than this--about what implacable despots the ladies are with one another, and how relentlessly hierarchical and cruel--but let's just stop with the astonishing, and absolutely true, observation that kleptomania is virtually exclusively a female peccadillo.  It is. Three to one, more females than males  commit it; though whether it's a very slight  or minor sin depends on whether you're a shopkeeper or not.  Our man Schopenhauer--whatever may have been his too-ruthless way with noisy sempstresses--was definitely onto some truths which much needed ventilating in his skewering of the ugly, unesthetic, short-legged and irrelevant sex.  Especially about the inveterate female habit of lying their faces off--which is where I wanted to make connection with my hero Tucker Max and his alter ego Dr. Geoffrey Miller.  Gentlemen, we are agreed.  Abit onus.