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From: gordon@bolton.UUCP (Gordon Partridge)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: ET sex roles, request for clarification
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 08:40:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 08:40:04 1984
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I am not sure what Ethan Vishniac's thesis is.  Is it that one gender really
*is* "demonstrably stupider, more emotional, and less physically capable",
or that we *mistakenly perceive* this to be the case?

One of our genders is less physically capable of carrying the weight of a
developing fetus or lugging a 10 kilogram child around for hours at a time.
One of our genders has been *trained* not to show emotion; personally, I
envy the other gender's privilege of revealing emotions.  One of our
genders has been *trained* to eschew sciences and mathematics, and therefore
*on the average* knows little about these fields; the other gender is
*trained* that arts and humanities are not for them, and therefore *on the
average* knows little about these fields.  Which of these genders is more
stupid?

What specific problem(s) does Mr. Vishniac refer to?

Gordon R. Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA  01740