Fri Jan 13 12:09:37 EST 2006
Mathew Forstater said:
>Can people not understand the difference between endorsing the notion
>that 'rationality is masculine' and the point made by Nelson quoted
>(from the "respectable" journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives)
>in the previous e-mail that, historically, "people in U.S. and European
>cultures tend to mentally *associate* certain characteristics with
>masculinity or femininity," including, possibly, rationality with
>masculinity (or verse-vice-a)?
Yes, I see this difference clearly. Cultural layers get added to almost any
concept.
Samuel Bostaph