aeq@pucc-h (Sargent) (01/10/84)
Notes of a semi-liberated male.... While I was in Phoenix, I saw a TV commercial like the following: Manager and subordinate are sitting across the desk from each other. Manager says something like "Now that you're going places with the company, have you thought of what you're going to do with all the money you'll be making?" Subordinate says no, and manager proceeds to plug some particular financial planning agency or some such. I was quite pleased to note that both the manager and the subordinate were women. On the other hand, I still retain some stereotypes. I saw a news story which mentioned that a police officer had been slightly wounded by a gunshot. Quick--what sex did you picture when you read that phrase "police officer"? Even without the context of wounding, one rarely thinks of a woman when one hears that phrase; and one just doesn't think of female police officers actually going out and getting hurt in the line of duty. Yet the wounded officer in this case turned out, to my surprise, to be a woman. Please, no flames from radical feminists who will not forgive the least residual trace of bias on men's part. Live & learn.... -- Jeff Sargent/...pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq