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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: Women's natural superiority at sympathizing
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 18:18:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 18:18:44 1983
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Guy: your message got chopped up on the way, and only the
last part arrived. But I gather you were flaming at me for
saying that women are better and nurturing/mothering etc.

What about the example from nature? Look at other mammals. It's
the mother who protects the young, nurses, nurtures, and so on.
Look at what happens in human society - ANY human society,
including remote tribes who have no contact with the outside
world. It seems to me that mothers end up with certain roles
as a matter of nature.

Note that I am not trying to "put down" women. On the other hand,
I do not think that men and women are equal. They are different,
and that is a fact of nature. They deserve to be treated equally
by society; but they are, quite simply, different physical animals
with different physical and psychological characteristics. Why
psychological, you say? My answer is, why not? There are undeniable
physical differences; until you prove otherwise, it's just as reasonable
to assume there are natural psychological differences too as it is
to think otherwise.

We are living it a society which is doing its best to cover up
the differences between men and women, in many ways. For the most
part I agree entirely with such efforts. Women who want to work
should have exactly the same opportunity as men. But there are
still many women who are happy raising a family. There should be
no implication that such women are somehow less complete persons.
I consider that such women are fulfilling a natural role, and are
putting their *natural* mothering/nursing/nurturing/sympathizing
talents to best use.

[i can see the flames coming already...]

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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