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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: The use of '-type'
Message-ID: <748@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 17:58:23 EDT
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In article <428@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>In article <503@unisoft.UUCP> tim@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie) writes:
>>     I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by 'type' in this
>>context.
>I suppose I wasn't clear. Men and women are distinguished by their
>respective... well... bodily parts. 
>
>Male-type's and female-types are distinguished by their respective
>behavior. What do you expect from a woman? What do you expect from a
>man? These are factors that determine '-types.
>
>This is not to be confused with masculine and feminine! A man can have
>feminine traits, and a woman can have masculine traits. I would say a
>female-type is a woman with feminine traits and a male-type is a man
>with masculine traits.
>
>Since "masculine" and "feminine" are defined by society, the end result
>is that a male-type is a man who behaves the way you's "expect" him to
>and a female-type is a woman who behaves the way you'd expect her to.

What if I don't expect a man to behave any differently than a woman,
or better yet, what if I don't have any expectations at all how a person will
behave?

While it is true that our perceptions are sexist (we have certain expectations
of how a person will behave based on their gender), I have a hard time 
understanding why you would go out of your way to use an uncommon
expression to categorize people along the lines of sexist perceptions.
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