Re: Silence of the Kyms
Jan 12, 1997 01:48 PM
by Tom Robertson
On Sun, 12 Jan 97, Bart Lidofsky wrote:
>Tom Robertson wrote:
>>Men and women _are_ different, and there is nothing wrong with making >>generalizations saying how they are different.
> There is quite a bit wrong with making generalizations, if one >attempts to use those generalizations to force an individual into a >pigeonhole into which they do not belong.
What does that have to do with anything I said?
>>Women _are_ more compassionate and cooperative than men.
>
> All one needs to disprove that is to find one given man who is more
>cooperative and compassionate than one woman. One must label generalizations as such; if you had stated, "In general, women are more compassionate and cooperative than men", it would be far more difficult to disprove.
The default is the other way around. Since part of the definition of a
generalization is that it _has_ exceptions, only absolute statements made
the way I said this one need to be specified. If I had meant that the
least compassionate and cooperative woman is more compassionate and
cooperative than the most compassionate and cooperative man, then I would
have had to qualify my statement with the word "all" before both the word
"women" and the word "men." My statement is correct as it stands.
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