Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!sarno From: sarno@hogpc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: superiority and associated topics Message-ID: <172@hogpc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 15:57:06 EDT Article-I.D.: hogpc.172 Posted: Thu Jun 9 15:57:06 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jun-83 01:36:58 EDT Lines: 33 For ages men have been 'looked up to' by women. It is even apparent in the traditional wedding vow that requests a woman 'obey' her husband, but does not require that a man obey his wife. Slowly I thought things were changing...that women wanted to be 'equal' to men and men wanted women to be 'equal' also. Atleast in the professional environment where we all have good jobs, it seems this is so . But I have to wonder how true it is; that, indeed, professional men DO want women to be equal. I wonder this because I happen to be quite interested in participating in various sports, and lots of people consider me very good at them (a relative thing...I see many people that are much better than I). I have some good male friends that have told me that my active interest, participation, and success (most importantly) can make a man feel inadequate. WHY? Because a guy needs to be BETTER than a women in most ways! So have things really changed if this is the way most men feel? I wonder if most men really DO feel this way? Must women that are good at things, and possibly BETTER than a male hide this? Do men really have such low levels of confidence? If women had to put up with assuming the man was more capable for years and years, I would not think men would find it so hard to accept and feel comfortable with women being AS good in some things as they are. signed, Not a helpless female and cannot pretend to be so