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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Marcel F. Simon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: handwriting
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 08:40:22 EDT
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> > 	Why does it SEEM to be a standard rule that the handwriting of women
> > is far superiour to that of men?  While a women'n writing is usually quite
> > elegant with lovely rounded characters, the scrawl from men's pens is usually
> > illegible. 
> >                        (Lance Bailey @ UWO  Comp Sci, London, Canada)
> 
> 
> I think you're overstating it, but it's also my experience that it's unusual
> for a woman to have really terrible handwriting, just as it is unusual for a
> man to have really elegant handwriting.  I think women in our society are
> taught to pay a lot more attention to how things look than men do.
> -- 
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)

My own handwriting *looks* nice, with lots of rounded curves, etc. Praise
for it, however, tends to come from people who do not have to read it. Those
who do usually need aspirin... :-

Marcel Simon


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