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From: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: handwriting
Message-ID: <467@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 20:38:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 20:38:42 1985
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In article <653@deepthot.UUCP> zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (Lance Bailey) writes:
>I've only been reading net.women for a few months so this might be a rehash....
>
>
>	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. Stranger still, while I know of men with "better than average"
>script, I really can't think of any women who get complaints about their
>handwriting.

It was my experience that the small percentage of the women in my
computer science department at Cal. State University, Northridge,
who would be outwardly classified by the
general public as nerds (i.e. there was a small % of female nerds
not a small % of women, thank god) had just as bad chciken scratches
as the men. I therefore inferred that the differnce in writing
between the genders was a part of the same social conditioning that taught
little girls to play cleanly in their frilly pink dresses while the guys
got to do whatever they wanted in the mud. The few women who weren't
so conditioned end up as not fitting many of the social "norms" in
their dress and other habits.

These observations are from a VERY small sample and are not to be
interpreted as in any way conclusive, OK flamers? (i.e I'm sure SOMEONE
could argue a genetic predisposition that prevents these women from
adapting to social norms, but I'm not buying it)
Marv Moskowitz (Iconoclast)


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