(urth) Wolfe: Misogynist? and accessibility

Daniel D Jones ddjones at riddlemaster.org
Thu Oct 19 14:59:22 PDT 2006


On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:42, Hmpf MacSlow wrote:
> >Any realistic man knows that he does not understand what it is like
> >to be a woman - portraits he paints of her are from the outside looking
> > in.
>
> Actually, as a woman who has spent most of her life reading books
> written by men, from a male perspective, and hasn't found that
> perspective mind-bogglingly alien, I'd say the differences between
> men and women are somewhat (or, depending on which depiction we're
> actually talking about, often even *hugely*) exaggerated. Neither our
> emotions nor our thought processes seem greatly different to me. Of
> course, I can only go by what I know from literature, movies,
> conversations with members of the opposite sex... but I'd say that's
> quite a corpus of evidence.
>
> Sorry, that was OT, I know. Just a personal pet peeve.

It seems not all women agrees with you:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/09/14/bamen14.xml&site=6&page=0

As the above will almost certainly get mangled by email, this is the same 
page:

http://tinyurl.com/mkela



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