Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners" Message-ID: <120@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 17:48:17 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.120 Posted: Fri Aug 9 17:48:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 07:19:13 EDT References: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP> <1375@pyuxd.UUCP> <100@unc.unc.UUCP> <1443@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 19 >>>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... :-) [ROSEN] 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. :-) Frank Silbermann