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- From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
- Subject: Re: a question to married women
- In-Reply-To: Will Steeves's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:47:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <CINDY.93Jan21195327@solan10.solan.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
- References: <1993Jan21.121917.7660@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:53:27
- Lines: 49
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- Will Steeves writes:
- >geoqwang@brahms.udel.edu (Qinxian Wang) writes...
- >>I recently read some books and maganizes about the differences
- >between men
- >>and women, and I am amazed by the different ways of thinking for men
- >and
- >>women. It seems to me that men in general don't know women,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Well, Qinxian, you're at least half right...
- >
- >What? And do you *really* think that women *do* know men? (This is
- >what is seemingly implied by your post). IMHO, neither gender
- >*really*
- >"knows" the other, no matter how long they live together.
-
- Well, that depends. I think i know my husband about as well as i
- could know another person. (We've been married for two years,
- together for five.) But i don't completely know him, and doubt i ever
- will. And i certainly don't think getting to know him has helped me
- understand men. In fact, if living with him has taught me anything,
- it is that there is no creature called The Typical Man. There's just
- a whole bunch of men, each of them different, and most of them
- completely unpredictable. (I would say the same about women, by the
- way... is there any woman who really figures she understands all
- women?!)
-
- >>even they live together because of the fundamental difference - women
- >>feel and men don't, as I understand.
- >
- >...And this is also *very* stereotypical, Qinxian.
-
- And very wrong. About a month ago i found out a paper i wrote was
- going to be published. My husband is _still_ telling me how proud he
- is of me, almost every day. He feels, alright. I've also met a few
- women who i would swear are incapable of feeling anything for anybody
- - at least anybody other than themselves. Feeling things or not is an
- individual thing, not a function of gender.
-
- What is true, i think, is that in many societies women are raised to
- show that they have feelings (even when they don't) and men are raised
- to hide their feelings (even when they have them). However, we're
- brought up not to scratch certain places in public, too - that doesn't
- mean they never itch!
-
- -Cindy Kandolf
- cindy@solan.unit.no
- Trondheim, Norway
-
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