Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!ucla-cs!uci-ics!maccs!kenm From: uunet!maccs!kenm%maccs.McMaster.CA@windom.UCAR.EDU (....Jose) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: umm...silly question, but... Message-ID: <17684@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 13 Jun 89 18:32:52 GMT Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: "....Jose" Organization: McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 33 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu In article <17237@paris.ics.uci.edu> Mary Holstege writes: >So, back to starting point, role models for women and for men. I > >[Why "rightly resist ... the downside role" -- are there no positive >aspects to "traditionally feminine qualities" that a man can adopt? >Likewise, are there no positive aspects of the 'male role' that a >woman can adopt? I don't think that a woman should wholly adopt a >male role either, but see nothing wrong with taking some of its useful >qualities. And vice-versa. --Cindy] > Not to bore you all with my autobiography, but there was at least one point in my life when I had a role model who was a girl in, of all places, a fundamentalist (ie conservative, right-wing) church I attended during my teen years. She was devout, infinitely respectable, quick witted, a leader among the church's youth, committed to her faith, and alway seemed to know the right thing to do and say in just about any circumstance... she was most definitely my "role model" as a new member of that group, and the idea that her femininity presented a problem never occured to me.... I simply found a different role model to follow for proper attire. I'm sure that this is not an isolated case..... many people must find role models who differ in sex, age , religion, nationality, race, shampoo preference, etc.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |".sig quotes are dippy"| Kenneth C. Moyle - kenm@sparkles | |- Kenneth C. Moyle | Department of Biochemistry - McMaster University| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------