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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners"
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 20:19:55 EDT
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>>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