Subject: (no subject)
From: supaflu design studio (supaflu@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 11:39:10 CDT
lindsey wrote:
Basically what I heard is that we women manipulate others thru
> conversation. Hmmm... I found myself thinking that if he/she (insert
> appropriate pronoun here) were of a gender we could easily define, then
> most of the females in the class would have been all over that arguing the
> counterpoint. I found myself suddenly (and uncharacteristically)
> unconfrontational due to the nature of the subject. It was a minor thing,
> but i noticed it.
lindsey, i think your problem of finding it hard to define del's gender is
your uneasyness or something, what is there so hard to define about del's
gender. he has spread it all out for you, is as open showing it as you can
have, is it so hard to see people who are in between of the traditional
genders? who are neither men nor woman nor mix of the binary? if you talk
with del it feels quit natural the way he behaves in his gender. i don't
see your point. and i guess there is a point that women are used to
manipulate through conversation... that this is a female gender
caracteristic. men do it slightly different i think. women put all the
emphasis on the conversation, men have more body there. women tend to
either get the focus not on their body, or put all the focus on it to use
it to their advantage. men have other strategies going on there.
anne
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