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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Two New Books
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 19:36:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 13 19:36:24 1984
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>>    It points out that most men expect emotional support (from women) as a
matter of course; women, however, rarely receive the same kind of support from
*their* SO. The authors note when a group of women get together, they will
frequently share their emotional lives with each other; by contrast, very few
(straight) men will share their emotions with even their closest male friends.
In adolescence, women focus their energies on relationships, using this time
as intense training for adulthood; their boyfriends, however, are devoting
their energies on creating an autonomous personality and breaking the bonds of
the family.    [LYNN]

However, none of the women I have been close to would agree that 
"when a group of women get together, they will frequently share their 
emotional lives with each other" [quote from above].  Their perception has
always been that men are generally closer to their male friends than women are
to their female friends, although even among men real closeness is rare.
They have all spoken of an undercurrent of competitiveness among women --
a competitiveness that started around puberty, and which seems stronger
than the competitiveness between men.

			[Daryel Akerlind]

My experience has been completely the opposite of yours and that of your
friends, which goes to show that your point about generalisations has
probably a lot of good in it.

Sophie Quigley
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