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To: Janice Shell who wrote (6469)	1/21/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Intelligent parents encourage their children to be as wily and manipulative as possible, Janice. It is a cat eat dog world out there. If my girls do not learn to bat their eyes effectively how will they get the best husbands? (and good grades for tht matter) Silly J, you also do not have a husband to keep in line, and one must be plenty manipulative to do that. It is a predispostion we must nurture and develope in our girls lest they not be able to compete in the global coquetish marketplace. Excuse my typing, I ahve a new set of nails (which my husband hinted he would like to see me get, and now I am pretty much hamstrung as far as typing is concerned. You know I wonder if that wasn't his little plan. Like footbinding women so they can't run away he has me make my fingers incapable of typing. Boy, now TAHTS manipulative, especially when one considers the etymological angle of all this)

To: Janice Shell who wrote (6469)	1/21/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well- I have boys, both of whom have gorgeous eyes and use them most effectively, so maybe this behavior isn't as sexist as it sounds. Did they learn it from me? Dan has big brown eyes and he's also pretty charming. Manipulative behavior---ahhh--would teaching my boys manners-how to behave in social situations, how to talk politely to adults, how to say "Yes,sir", how to pull out a chair, open a door, all of which they do easily now and well, constitute manipulation of sorts? Isn't everything we teach manipulative to a certain extent? I have a friend who says I've raised "Pleasers". Yet I look at our children and well---I'm not sure her way is making her very outspoken children terribly successful or happy... On the other hand, I would hate to think that my daughters relied on sexual behavior to make their way in the world. Look what happened to poor Blanche Dubois.