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!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Masculine vs Feminine netnews postings Message-ID: <1532@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 09:25:13 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1532 Posted: Sat Aug 17 09:25:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 21:09:25 EDT References: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP> <1375@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 25 >>>Not at all. Part of the male role IS protector of the weak. >>>Provided, of course, that the weak recognize your dominance. Otherwise, >>>you've got to teach them a lesson in manners, first. :-) [SILBERMANN] >>I guess mothers must be masculine then, filling a "male role" when they >>watch over their little kids. [ROSEN] > There's a lot of truth in that. Screeching at children for 15 years > does tend to masculinize women. Raising a mess of kids has turned > many a "feminin, purdy lil' thang" into a real battle-ax. :-) But in what way does this qualify as "masculine" except that you say so? >>Do you really believe this nonsense, Frank, or are you playing >>devil's advocate? [ROSEN] > I only half believe it. In this particular exchange, I've been > playing "rednecks' advocate". I didn't think this would be > a balanced discussion unless their views were also represented. Oh... (??) -- Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr