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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
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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