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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (9803)3/5/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot  Respond to of 20981
 
David,

Agreed! I for one do not seek to eradicate male- and female-centered differences, rather to eradicate the differences of perception based soley on the gender/sex of the poster, or any other telltale "isms," for that matter.

I can truthfully say that I have only rarely noted sexism or any other ism rearing it's ugly head in responses to my postings, but then I've never been a male here at SI and I've rarely posted without taking into consideration how my post will be perceived because I am thought to be a female.

I agree with Betty that it would be interesting to learn what percentage of males and females use gender/sex-neutral handles or have chosen to identify themselves as opposite their gender/sex.

I should also like to add that I don't lose sleep over this and simply come to SI for the fun it provides.

Holly



To: DMaA who wrote (9803)3/5/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: George Coyne  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20981
 
<< Sex always matters at some level. I think there is a function located in the ancient reptile portion of our brains that continually sorts humans encountered into one of two categories:

1. Sex Object
2. Threat

Women have the same function in their brains but with different parameters.>>

Wouldn't it be interesting to see if the distaff side agree with this, and most interesting, what would be those different parameters!

G. W.


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