[net.women] Women and Sympathy

charlie@cca.UUCP (Charlie Kaufman) (10/18/83)

	Assuming there is a difference (and I think that there seems to
	be, at least at the level of feeling free to express that
	sympathy), the next question becomes why.  Is it a sociological
	phenomenon, or is it physiological?

I disagree.  I think the next question is what difference does it make?
I certainly would hope no one would propose that it is a just basis for
discrimination regardless of its cause.  No, of course not.  Well, what
difference does it make then?

                          --Charlie Kaufman
                            charlie@cca
                            ...decvax!cca!charlie

nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) (10/19/83)

To the contrary, I think the question is an important one.  If the difference
has a biological basis then I agree, it doesn't matter whether there is a
diffence, and it certainly should not be used as a basis for discrimination.  
However, if it has a sociological origin then we can study and perhaps change it.

                                        -kee