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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: handwriting
Message-ID: <178@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:38:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 17:38:02 1985
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>...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.

Actually, I would go further and say that people with bad handwriting, both 
men AND women, may be less conformist.  Penmanship is one of the most 
constricting subjects that children are taught--at least it was to me.  
All that practice at making perfect loops seemed so stupid.  A lot of drill 
to try and make everyone do something exactly the same.  Yuck.

The only thing that blows this whole theory is that my father is a 
very straight-arrow, conforming person--a judge, no less.  However, all 
the law clerks recognize his signature immediately--it is the one in 
which they can't identify a single letter.
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