chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot) (08/03/84)
Donald Graft = > > Here's one that will make Trish happy: The doctors that separated > the Siamese twins from Burma had to decide which infant to give the > one set of genitals (male) to. The decision was to give them to baby > A because (s)(h)e (it?) had "a more aggressive personality." Now, this > baby was also the more healthy specimen of the two, and the parents > obviously had some input, but it's interesting how our societal > stereotypes affect such decisions. The doctors, of course, were male. > Would the decision have been different had they been female? I'm confused about several issues here: What's wrong with giving the more baby with the higher predicted survival genitals? I need to find old newspapers and read them to get more details, but, well, this seems to imply that there was only one set of any kind. So, to me, giving them to the healthier baby sounds good (unless you're worried about this kid producing more "defective" specimens). Does somebody think that women *don't* have genitals, and therefore the other, less healthy baby is now female? And, um, has Trish become sort of icon standing for "feminist" or "controversy" or "opposed in general to male genitalia :-)"? L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752