Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners" Message-ID: <1443@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 20:19:55 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1443 Posted: Wed Aug 7 20:19:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:25:20 EDT References: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP> <1375@pyuxd.UUCP> <100@unc.unc.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 20 >>Just goes to show how stupid and arbitrary such classifications >>of people's characteristics (AND of people themselves!) really are. >>(Is this a feminine or a maculine response? :-) [ROSEN] > Because your response was so direct and assertive, I would say it was > masculine. Of course, your response would have been even more masculine, > had you threatened to beat up any dissenters. :-) [SILBERMANN] But the reason for my saying it at all was based on a sensitivity towards those who are hurt by such bogus misclassifications. Does that make it "feminine"? Oh dear, maybe I should put on women's clothing and hang around in bars... :-) [BUT FIRST YOU SHOULD CUT DOWN TREES, THEN YOU SHOULD EAT YOUR LUNCH, AND THEN GO TO THE LAVAT'RY] {yes, that would be the manly, manful thing to do...} -- Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr