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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Masculinity is "Normal"
Message-ID: <5131@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 22:50:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 22:50:44 1985
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In article <472@ttidcb.UUCP> jackson@ttidcb.UUCP (Dick Jackson) writes:
>I read this group because I still have the hope that one day
>I will understand women - maybe, I thought, by eavsdropping on their
>thoughts about themselves, I would get some clues.
>
>(To some of us men, women are mysterious, almost alien creatures. "Who
>knows what women think about" wrote Jack Smith of the LA Times. "We do
>know, however, what men think about - food, sex and football".)

Well, I have enough trouble finding things that my two sisters have in
common. They were raised in the same environment, yet they are very
different. I've known them all their lives and we have a good
relationship; I think I know them pretty well. Now you want to
understand WOMEN, in general? Good luck! But if there are particular
women you want to get to know, then try talking, and listening, to
them. And do the best you can to see things from her point of view.
You may not know that her father always responded to her questions
about cars with "why would a pretty thing like you need to know
that?", but anything you do to understand where someone is coming from
is better than assuming everyone has the same background you do.

-- 
The California Lottery is a tax on the stupid.

 Phil Ngai +1 408 749-5720
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