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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
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 20:18:54 1985
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> 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
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