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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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Subject: Re: emotions and your so
Message-ID: <556@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 09:24:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 09:24:12 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 01:17:33 EST
References: <382@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1059@lll-crg.ARpA>
Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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In article <1059@lll-crg.ARpA> booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards) writes:

>>... Ever wonder how emotional (and illogical) women are? ...
>
>... I have never met a "logical" or "unemotional"
>man. They are just as flaky as women. ...

The lie that women are by nature emotional and illogical has led to
much unfairness in the working world. Back when I was a grad student
in environmental sciences, I took an advanced seminar in meteorology
from a woman who practically singlehandedly created the field of cloud
physics back in the 1950s. Her advisor was a famous meteorologist.
When she went in to talk to him about her proposed dissertation topic,
she told him she was interested in creating a mathematical model of
cumulus cloud physics (something no one else had attempted: she solved
the equations iteratively on a desk calculator). He told her that that
was a good topic for a 'girl' since it wasn't very important and there
weren't any 'men' working on it she'd have to compete against.

Anyone who claims not to have known "logical" and "unemotional" women or
"illogical" and "emotional" men is too young to know better, a blatant
sexist, or both. This difference between the sexes is an illusion
created by the tendency of women to be more open in expressing their
emotions than men. Men are JUST as emotional as women: they just tend
to be hung up about letting their emotions show.

                          -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly