men more aggressive, women more emotional...

[Kelley Walker]

At 04:06 PM 3/14/01 -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
>kelly writes:
>
>"i'd assumed charles was kidding, so i teased him back.  but if not, i'll
>say this: it's the classic thing that men in my classes say when we talk
>about why women's bodies are more prominent in various media than are
>men's.  OF COURSE! it's because men are naturally ugly while women are
>naturally beautiful.  men are dirty and stinky, as well!  heh. criminy!"
>
>It does not follow, from saying that women are beautiful that 1) they are 
>not anything else or that 2) men are ugly. Beauty (not necessarily in the 
>sexual sense) is simply one of the essential qualities of  women. I, as a 
>woman, am not even hard-wired to be sensitive to it, and yet I recognize 
>it and am sometimes bowled over by it.

uh thanks, but i was talking about my students attitudes.  not mine. hence, 
the prefatory remarks.  given that i'd already tsked tsked chaz, i was 
pretty sure that was obvious.

kelley