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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (45033)	5/3/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Respond to of 67261

Thanks for the considered response Michelle. At the time I wrote the post you responded to, I tried to think of an example of a woman who had real power and had abused it in the ways that men are charged with. The closest examples I could think of (excepting wives, such as Marie Antoinette, Eva Peron and Imelda Marcos) were Cleopatra, Bloody Mary and Indira Gandhi. Clearly none of them were as blatant as even some of the better male rulers (except maybe Mary, but as you pointed out, that was more about her religion and her times than anything else). However, I still believe that the behavioral differences between men and women are primarily cultural and not genetic, and that as those cultural roles shift, the traits that we tend to view as feminine will become less and less common. At least among women. I really don't think it's all that significant though. There will always be power-mongers who are so caught up in their outside lives that they need nursemaids or secretaries or what have you and there will always be people who are willing (or at least resigned) to playing those roles. I don't think it matters much which gender plays which role.