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.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Changing Roles Message-ID: <1005@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 20:31:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.1005 Posted: Mon Jul 15 20:31:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 23:42:48 EDT Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 37 >> 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. Well, I did not say that you were a feminist. I did say that you stood for women's rights and that is included in `people', isn't it? > To say that there are no differences between men and women (apart from > the anatomical) is absurd. Why is it 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 If you believe that these differences are due to gender role learning, (which I agree with), then you can't say that women are `just different' because that implies that the reasons for the difference can not even be explained. Farzin Mokhtarian ubc-vision!mokhtar