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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (94246)	1/21/2005 1:18:20 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm not sure equal is the word to use, though I consider that a given. We, imo, are equals with different strengths... and weaknesses. But that is based not on gender but individual attributes. To consider that a woman could not be the greatest mathametition (way bad spelling) or a man might not have the deepest emotional understanding of relations is silly, to me. Are more men than women gifted at mathmatics? perhaps. Who cares. Simply don't hold back those women who are gifted. Are more women than men gifted at sorting through the emotions and turmoil of human relations? Perhaps. But why hold back a man who has that gift? It's not equal or the same or whatever, to me. It's about each person growing in and following their own strength. And can a strength be a weakness? If I was to diagnosis him, which me a sis did years ago :), I'd call my dad high-functioning autistic. Dude is the most brilliant engineer you could find. Does he understand anything else? noooooooo. Pissed him off to no end that none of his girls had a clue. But his granddaughters seem to have got that math/science gene. Newphew either doesn't have or doesn't care about it. :) Oh, but his son-in-law is a math nerd. They have so much to talk about. Equal? I don't know. Yes. Smart, stupid, sane, insane. We are equal. Same strengths and weaknesses? Another story. The fit is what count. ;)