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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: handwriting
Message-ID: <2377@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 20:53:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 20:53:01 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

I do not write a lovely script but either a plain but readable backhand
(drilled into me by a private tutor) or not-quite-unreadable scrawls.
(I'm righthanded.  My parents took great pains to make sure to make sure
I wasn't a potential lefty when I was young by always offering me things
dead center.  I always grabbed with the right hand.)

Awhile back one of my friends' kids came to a gathering at our home and
asserted you could tell men's and women's handwriting apart.  I had the
people there all write the word "handwriting."  The kid identified
half of the men as women--and half of the women as men.  (In other words,
she came up with the results predictable by chance.)

In other words, I don't think your generalization about handwriting holds
true for me and my friends.  It may be true for some people.  If so, I
suspect it's that our culture raises girls to be conformist, boys to be
independent--and this manifests itself, among other things, as a willingness
to heed the etiquette of handwriting.

--Lee Gold


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