Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: handel!farmerl@ccncsu.colostate.edu (lisa ann farmer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Socialization of men and women (was Re: sexist space...) Message-ID: <13571@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 19 Mar 91 18:00:43 GMT References: <9103062330.aa03738@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1991Mar8.105328.17019@panix.uucp> <9103091851.AA00695@mica.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: lisa ann farmer Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 12 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu Males respond in class. I think the word I would rather use for this is assertive. When I ask something in class I don't feel like I am being aggressive but that i am asserting myself and clarifying that I do or don't understand. I also feel that my learning is increased by doing this. I would be aggressive if I went up to the board and took the chalk out of the professor's hand. I can't give a 'dictionary' definition of the two terms aggressive and assertive but I hope my examples help. Anyways, just my observation... Lisa From: farmerl@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (lisa ann farmer) Path: handel.CS.ColoState.Edu!farmerl