Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: skirt-wearing Message-ID: <720@rtech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 00:40:51 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.720 Posted: Thu Oct 31 00:40:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:46:09 EST References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 33 > In article <2402@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes: > > > >I think our culture teaches us to confuse competency and stoicism with > >masculinity, sensuality and incompetency with femininity. > > > >--Lee Gold > > EXACTLY TRUE. Even the phrase "I feel feminine when..." is offensive > because it immediately associates femininity with "feelings" and elevates > the status of "feelings" to a feminist issue. Men don't say "I feel > masculine when...", they say "I prove that I am a man when...." HUH!?!?!? I have never heard any man say this, or anything remotely like this. > I would say that economic, political and social issues are more important > topics than people's feelings, and whether a skirt connotes femininity > or how it makes you "feel". > > Cheryl Stewart I couldn't disagree more. Not only are feelings extremely important, they are intimately involved with all of the intellectual issues you listed above. At the root of every belief you have on every topic are your feelings about the topic. This is not to say that feelings and rationality are indistiguishable. They are complementary, and any person who suppresses emotion in favor of intellect (or vice versa) to any large degree is unbalanced. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff