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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: handwriting
Message-ID: <3187@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 01:00:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 01:00:38 1985
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My handwriting is *dreadful*!!  My printing in grade school was dreadful,
my cursive starting in 3rd grade was dreadful, and I haven't improved (as
far as being legible) since.  Interesting thing, though, when people see my
handwriting without seeing the name attached to it (or when I use initials
instead of my full name), they have overwhemingly (in school and business)
assumed that I was a man.

Maybe a bit of the ol' social conditioning is involved--little girls are
expected to be neater, and the neat handwriting goes with that assumption.
No one *expects* for little boys to have "pretty" handwriting, in fact, the
assumption may be made that boys *won't* have neat handwriting; so the
effort won't be made to improve upon their handwriting.


Laurie Sefton
NSC has *nothing* at all to say about my handwriting....

-- 
:From under the bar at Callahan's:   Chuq Von Rospach 
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If you can't talk below a bellow, you can't talk...


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