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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (54701)	9/6/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Laughing with sincere appreciation.... Actually, a friend and I (the one with the aunt's house--shudder) have been talking about gender differences as well. Mostly, in terms of the differences in ways of expressing thoughts and in perceptions. He was telling me about a member of the police force with whom he'd had a conversation during a seminar. The guy said that as a cop on the beat, he never wanted to be paired with a woman--not intimidating enough physically. However, as a detective, which he was, he was happier with a woman: Women notice things that a man usually doesn't and he found the women the best detectives he'd encountered. We have known each other 32 years, not 31 as I originally posted. He reminded me of the exact date of our first date--btw, he always calls me on the anniversary from wherever he is in the world. He observed that he has found me to be one of the very few women he has encountered who thinks and expresses "like a man" and "like a woman" and said that he was not surprised that on some of the stock threads here on SI, I have often been mistaken for a man while on other threads there has been no mistake. We arrived at a way of expressing the differences that seem to appear as gender-related in the way men and women think and, therefore, present their conclusions, even though very often the conclusions are the same. Speaking, of course, in broad generalities and acknowledging the masses of exceptions, men seem to think more in decision tree form; women seem to think in a form more comparable to a spider's web. Have you ever encountered MindMan, by the way, which tries to map thinking processes?