Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version Tektronix Network News Daemon (B 2.10.2 based); site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!moiram 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 Article-I.D.: tektroni.5486 Posted: Wed Jul 10 15:17:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:29:27 EDT References: <993@ubc-vision.CDN> Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 32 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