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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Changing Roles
Message-ID: <5486@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 15:17:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 15:17:55 1985
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Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
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Summary: 

In article <993@ubc-vision.CDN> mokhtar@ubc-vision.CDN (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
>
>> There is no getting around the fact that the differences between
>> men and women go beyond the anatomical to the social.  To say
>> that women are more closely in tune with their emotions is not
>> to say that they are superior, just different.  
>
>> Moira Mallison
>> tektronix!moiram
>
>Quite interesting to see this come from a woman who stands for women's
>rights. Do you really believe that women are simply "just different"?
>Do you know that the respected psychologists and thinkers of the last
>century also argued that women were not inferior, just different. Each
>sex was best fit/suited for specific things. Women's difference made 
>them more suitable for being housewives and taking care of the children
>and men's differences made them more suitable for the outside world and
>more "intellectual" activities. To say that men were more intelectually
>inclined was not to say that they were superior, "just different". 
>  

I am not a feminist.  I am a humanist.  I stand for *people's* rights.

To say that there are no differences between men and women (apart from
the anatomical) is absurd.  Your implication is that all differences
are inherent to the sex of a person.  Rather, they are a part of the
gender role learning that begins at the moment our parents learn our
sex.  And therefore, these characteristics are somewhat more easily
modified.

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram