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From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Pooh @ Communist Martyrs High)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Are the sexes the same?
Message-ID: <2896@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 19:04:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2896
Posted: Sun Sep 15 19:04:55 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 03:20:18 EDT
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Reply-To: pooh@sally.UUCP (Pooh @ Communist Martyrs High)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <411@decwrl.UUCP> jackson@curium.DEC writes:
>
>>The point I was trying to make was that, getting back to
>>the things that drive both men and women, there is little
>>difference except in their outward manifestations, which
>>are moulded by society.  I have known men (and women) who
>>use the outward differences as an excuse for not getting to
>>know the person underneath--on the premise that "it's 
>>impossible to understand them anyway."
>> 
>>Cheers,
>>Pooh
> 
>Can't say I agree with this. The implication is that society is
>to blame for creating artificial differences between men and
>women. I think for the most part, society has reasons for the
>customs it adopts. Usually, society adopts those customs that 
>will allow it to function the as smoothly as possible. If society
>treats men and women differently, isn't it possible that it does
>so because of actual differences that have been observed over the
>years?
>--
>
>					Seth Jackson

I agree that society has created ways of dealing with
observed differences; however, I do not agree that they
are always useful or conducive to real communication.

I try treating men the way I treat other women and the
way I want to be treated; I find that it works very well.

By the way, Seth, weren't you the one who posted the article
about women claiming to want the same things as men, but
not really wanting them, and that this confused you?

Q.E.D.

Cheers,
Pooh

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