The Rise of the Extreme Female Brain: Making Sense of the Defenestration of Prince

Research indicates that we can reasonably distinguish between the “Extreme Male Brain” and the “Extreme Female Brain.” The former is interested in logic and systematizing to the neglect of emotion and how people feel. The latter is focused on the emotions of others, on empathy, and on ensuring everyone is included but it is “system blind.” As women have become more influential in society, it seems fairly clear that we have moved from a focus on logic and consistency to an obsession with how others feel. This shift is epitomised in the treatment of Prince Andrew or, as we are suddenly supposed to call him, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

As I think I made clear in my review of the Prince Andrew biography Entitled, the younger brother of the King is, clearly, lacking in intelligence and is also an extremely unpleasant and Narcissistic individual. The word “entitled” perfectly encapsulates this thoroughly spoilt man who mistreats his staff, has tantrums when his full titles aren’t used and brazenly lies, particularly about the extent of his relationship with the late sex offender and tycoon Jeffrey Epstein. But, surely, even Prince Andrew deserves to be regarded as innocent until proven guilty, and this is not a right which the Royal Family have accorded him.

On 30^th October, seemingly in response to the King being booed by members of the public and someone aggressively asking him how much he knew about his brother’s behaviour, Andrew was stripped of his titles of nobility, his knighthood, the prenominal “His Royal Highness” and even of the title “Prince,” humiliatingly reducing him to the status of a “commoner.” The press release directly stated that Andrew denied the allegations against him (of statutory rape of Virginia Roberts, by implication) and added, “Their majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”

In other words, without quite directly saying so, the Palace stated it was defenestrating Andrew because (at least in part) of Virginia Roberts’ allegations, even though he denies the allegations and he has not been proven guilty of them. This is in spite of the fact that Virginia Roberts is a fantasist or, at the very least, is extremely unreliable woman. She claimed that Alan Dershowitz raped her as a minor multiple times and was forced to withdraw this and admit she’d made a mistake. She made accusations against a French public figure and was compelled to admit under oath that she made mistakes about the people who assaulted her. She originally claimed to have first had sex with Prince Andrew in New Mexico, something that flight logs proved simply never happened. In 2025, she stated on Instragram that she had four days to live, which was a complete lie. Prosecutors even dropped a rape case she brought because no jury would consider her credible. In her posthumously published memoir, Nobody’s Girl, she was raped by a “Prime Minister” in one edition but a mere “Minister” in another, presumably because she inflated the title.

If Nobody’s Girl, is to be believed then there is no bigger victim in the world than Virginia Roberts. From a relatively young age Virginia was sexually abused by her father and his friends, allegations the father denies. “He used his fingers at first. Then, days later, his mouth. He called my private parts my “tee-tee” and his penis his “pee-pee.” It wasn’t long before he asked if I wanted to touch his genitals. I didn’t want to, but he wanted me to. He was my father, so I did.”

Virginia’s mother used to beat her on the bare bottom with thorn-covered sticks as a punishment for wetting herself, presumably drawing blood with every stroke. Virginia’s mother would even do this in front of the neighbours: “When she was really angry, she’d send me out to the yard to cut a thorny branch from one of her prized rosebushes. “Pick a switch,” she’d say. Then, she’d make me pull down my pants, in front of the neighbors and anyone else who was around, so she could whip me with it.” The parents sent her to a kind of reform school called “Growing Together” where she was also supposedly abused: “Not for nothing would Growing Together eventually be dubbed “Suffering Together” in an exposé in New Times . . .”

Virginia’s behaviour patterns are consistent with having been abused in some way. Post-Traumatic Stress can lead to memory gaps which victims will fill in, extreme emotional dysregulation, warped perceptions, and Histrionic behaviour in order to feel better about yourself. This may result in their becoming addicted to attention, and sympathy, in such a way that confabulation is incentivised. Indeed, such women may become Vulnerable Narcissists, presenting themselves as the world’s biggest victim in order to get attention and turbo-charge bonding with people over whom they can then feel a sense of control. The unfortunate result is that even if Virginia was a victim of abuse it becomes difficult to believe anything she says.

This should extend to her allegations against Prince Andrew. Her brother “Sky Rocket” (that really is his name) asserted in an interview that this “ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British Prince . . . ” But Virginia was not an “ordinary American girl.” She was probably an abuse victim and was certainly a fantasist. Appalling as Prince Andrew is, it, surely, unacceptable that he should be treated in this way due to allegations levelled by a woman whom no sensible person would regard as credible.

The King’s actions reflect a kind of hysteria. This hysteria is ultimately underpinned by the long-term shift from being system-focused to being system-blind and centred, to far too great a degree, on empathy and emotion.