On Sep 2, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
In a heterosocial society, there are a lot of pressures on men and women to socialize across the gender line and have heterosexual relations (if you don't, your sexual identity gets stigmatized as abnormal). Not so in a homosocial society. A homosocial society can be more comfortable for women as well as men.
Wow. First you throw over Marxism, now you give up on cross-gender friendships? Separate means more equal? This is all just some exercise in performance art, isn't it? Doug