- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry C. Lyons
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: You People
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>UGH - I can't fight everybody on the list about this, I accept that
>fact that you think I'm wrong. That's ok, I think you're wrong, I
>think that when you ignore human and mother nature you end up paying
>attention very quickly.
>
>Everybody is correct when they say that the situations I proposed
>are valid for heterosexaul couples as well. The crux of my
>arguments is that men behave very differenty from women when posed
>in the same situation. I believe that men will find any and all
>possible ways to exploit the system - women no longer have to be a
>part of it. Am I wrong on this, Larry? You're a behavior expert,
>right? What I meant was that women think differently than men - no
>need to twist my words, I'll do my own twisting.
I'm no real behavior expert. I just prefer to cite research. Remember
one thing, you have to be very careful ascribing biological
differences to what could entirely be cultural ones. The problem is
that the behaviors you note if they really indicated a biological
difference, would exist across the board, and across all cultures and
societies, and would be fairly rigidly defines (almost no men would
do behavior X and almost no women would do behavior Y). Using your
example, there are plenty of women who game the system a lot. And a
lot of men who do not. With a bit of looking I am sure I can come up
with a bunch of other cultures that are just the opposite, men
carefully following the system and not taking advantage of it and
women being the exact opposite. In these cases its always a very good
idea to be skeptical of your own cultural assumptions.
larry
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