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From: emory!vicki@gatech.edu (Vicki Powers)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Women and Logic
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Date: 29 Oct 88 02:37:38 GMT
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I have something to add to this discussion of women and logical thinking.
First I should point out that I'm a woman.  I'm also a mathematician, and
I can think very logically.  I spent my childhood solving those "logic 
problems"  (you're on an island where everyone always lies or always tells
the truth, etc.)   I can program, I can think recursively.  And at the same
time I'm a very emotional person!  I cry at sad movies, I cry at happy
movies, Kodak commercials can make me cry!  The other day I saw a half-dead
lizard on the sidewalk and it upset me all day.  I'm definately one of
those emotional women.  Is there a contradiction here?  I don't think so.

Why can't we be logical AND emotional????
   
      Vicki

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