slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (09/29/85)
>I really can't think of any women who get complaints about their >handwriting. > decvax!{utzoo|watmath}!deepthot!zaphod Try me. Terrible writing. I often get requests to print my name under my signature--and I often cannot read my own notes. By the way, I LOVE your login name. -- Sue Brezden Real World: Room 1B17 Net World: ihnp4!drutx!slb AT&T Information Systems 11900 North Pecos Westminster, Co. 80234 (303)538-3829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your god may be dead, but mine aren't. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
carolp@hpvcla.UUCP (carolp) (10/09/85)
>> Why does it SEEM to be a standard rule that the handwriting of women >> is far superiour to that of men? >> (Lance Bailey @ UWO Comp Sci, London, Canada) > I think women in our society are > taught to pay a lot more attention to how things look than men do. > Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) I suspect it is because as second- or third-graders, girls are typically better able to deal with classwork, or have better fine motor coordination (inborn or conditioned, I have no idea). If you "master" handwriting when it's first taught, you will probably have legible handwriting for a long time. If you weren't very good at it in grade school, there's little motive to improve later on. Carol Peterman hplabs!hp-pcd!hpvcla!carolp