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- From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.psychology,soc.women,soc.men
- Subject: Re: More Women Than Men Prefer to be Alone
- Message-ID: <722085401.26513@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:16:41 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Warren Sarle (saswss@unx.sas.com) wrote:
- : In article <1e3ca8INNjdi@agate.berkeley.edu>, joan@koala.berkeley.edu () writes:
- : |> News Item typed from San Francisco Examiner of Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1992
- : |> page A-9. Without permission.
- : Women who enjoy solitude are called "anti-social" in this article.
- : If it were men who tended to prefer solitude, they would probably
- : be called "independent", "autonomous", etc.
- :
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- I think in this instance the term "anti-social" has a technical definition
- as it is behaviour that does not involve socialisation. It is psychologists
- speak and I don't think it would make any difference if it were men who
- preferred to be alone.
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- Aaron Turner aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-