Re: OT: Interesting article

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From: "Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work" <daniel.andreasson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: OT: Re: Interesting article


> Harald Stoiber wrote:
>
> > 3) Perhaps the study only reflects how people are
> > socialized - or even just how they think they are > socialized?
>
> Well, of course it does. Girls are brought up to be girls and boys are
brought up to be boys. If parents, day care personel and teachers (and other
grown-ups in the  children's surroundings) stopped treating children
differently just because of their gender, we wouldn't have such inequalities
in society.

Thing is...Girls are Girls, Boys are Boys.  I'll admit, they are not as
different as they are treated to be, but there are certainly
differences...probably genetic.  Or at least hormonal, very early on.

> And that program wouldn't have such an easy time figuring out if the
writer's a man or a woman. ;)
>
> This program only helps to increase prejudice about men and women, and
just makes the situation worse.
>
> Though this is of course only the little feminist and anti-biologist in me
speaking. And this is way off-topic already.

Thing is, it is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong to assume that people with
different Genders are identical.  Equal, I would say, but not identical.
Incidentally, I saw a programme on television last night about this boy who
was accidentally castrated during circumcision, and brought up as a girl.
He's now living as man again.(no, it wasn't one of those documentaries
designed to be fasicinating like a road accident.  It was a genuine study on
how upbringing affects gender identity)  I don't know if that proves
anything, but still.

> Daniel Andreasson
>