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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine?
Message-ID: <280@fear.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 15:46:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 15:46:31 1985
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Summary: "Haven't we grown up yet?"

In article <479@enmasse.UUCP>, nancy@enmasse.UUCP (Nancy Werlin) writes:
> [...] It's the old sugar 'n spice 'n everything
> nice versus frogs and snails and puppy dogs' tails scenario --
> except that haven't we all grown up by now?  Don't we know that
> being a woman or a man is a lot more complicated than, say, putting
> on the Chanel No.5 and the little black dress with its little black
> accessories and stiletto heels, or, on the other hand, 
> putting on the worn out lumberjack shirt which has gotten 
> a bit tight over the biceps lately and tinkering with 
> the '65 Triumph or ancient Ford truck in the backyard?
> 
> Well, have we grown up?  I don't know.  I have felt *extremely*
> uncomfortable reading these traditionally-oriented postings.
> I suggest that the people posting their masculine/
> feminine lists have not been entirely honest, and that this is
> why their lists are so free of ambiguity.  

Worrying about whether you're acting grown-up enough is bad enough
during childhood, but I think it's a little sad that people resist
things in adult life because they seem "childish."  Most people enjoy
dressing up, but many feel compelled to deny it, or to find excuses.

I'm sufficiently grown up not to worry about acting childish. Wearing
a tuxedo makes me feel masculine, I suppose (so does helping a
stranger push his stalled car out of an intersection), but that's not
the term I'd use if I weren't joining an existing conversation.
-- 

		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert