Dear Felicia.
I still have to respond to your email on dangerous men. It was fascinating for me to read what you said. Your analysis was very good. But I don't have it before me now, and I want to send you this email on the topic from the same dialogue that generated my own posting. Let me just say, impressionistically, that if men have lost their sense of dangerousness because of social and economic factors, what do we make of the spirit of Byron, who was most definitely a 'dangerous man'?
[I'm not going to reveal my reasoning. Tell me whether you see the connection].
>Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>> This is the time perhaps to drag out a bit of research
>> I came across a few years ago. Someone investigated
>> how people estimated their competency on the job. It
>> was discovered that the one group (this across all
>> age, gender, racial, etc. lines) who did not
>> systematically overestimate their own competence were
>> those who suffered from depression.
>>
>> :-)
>
>"... but the glance / of melancoly is a fearful gift. /
>What is it but the telescope of truth / which brings
>life near in utter nakedness / making the cold reality
>too real?" -- Byron
>