barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (Barbara Lee) (02/01/84)
I think men and women tend to have some different traits, whether this is biological or sociological, I don't know. I don't worry too much about why men and women have some different tendencies (i.e. men's muscle mass seems to build up more than women's). Instead, I ask, how can I use my traits to my best advantage? I've taken karate lessons. Some men weighed twice as much as I did, and were a lot stronger, and were close to a foot taller than I was, and probably more aggressive than I was. Instead of taking the attitude that many people do...women can' t do karate...they aren't strong enough, etc,; I looked at my talents, and asked myself how I could use them to my best advantage. I am graceful, have a fast reaction time, and since I am smaller, I can move faster. By developing and using these talents as much as possible, I could hold my own just fine. I've worked quite a bit with handicapped people. I think it helps them when we concentrate on what they can do. Everyone has their set of weaknesses and strengths (some of these probably tied to sex roles). I try not to get bogged down about my weaknesses. I try to improve the areas I'm weak in and capitalize on my strengths.
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (07/28/84)
> Yes, but we are talking about SEX roles. What I am saying is > that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to stop "assigning > roles on the basis of sex", when *humans have been doing so for > millions of years*. Even if you are able to, through a passage of > numerous laws, there is no guarantee that this is best for the > society - the men, the women, the children - that you claim it is. > "Liberation" is a good concept, but I don't want social experimenters > applying laws to our psycho-social system, like 16th century surgeons > applied leaches to the injured. Well meaning psychological > experimenters already do more harm than good with their misinformation > about insanity, I certainly don't want it to spread to civilizaton > as a whole. The idea is not to "pass laws" to force new sex roles or no sex roles, but rather to restructure things so that people will have the freedom to choose whatever roles (or non-roles) they like without interference from society. -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr