Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.CDN (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Changing Roles Message-ID: <993@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:18:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.993 Posted: Wed Jul 3 20:18:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 06:13:15 EDT Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 34 > 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. If it sometimes > seems there is a higher than average emphasis placed on that trait > in this forum, perhaps it is to compensate for the lower value > placed on it out there in the real world. > 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". No differences between men and women (other than the physical) have been proven. Saying that women are "just different" is the kind of thing that helps to strengthen the "feminine mystique" that women (and men as a result) have been suffering from for a long time. Farzin Mokhtarian ubc-vision!mokhtar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "- The heroes?" "- Ah, the horses are all aging."