Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00478)

On Wed, 15 Jan 97, Jerry Schueler wrote:

>You are a male, and for
>you to say that women are more compassionate sounds
>like an excuse for why you are not being more compassionate
>yourself.

It does?


><How is my statement one-sided?>
>
>It suggests that women are more compassionate than men.
>You are apparently neglecting all of the compassionate
>men in the world.  

I am?  This is illogical.


>What do I do, wait until I am born
>female to develop compassion?  

I don't see why you would do that.


><I don't see how our impressions being different makes my statement 
>sexist and yours not.>
>
>Mine are not because I see both men and women being compassionate.

And I don't?


>My argument is with compassion.  If you said
>that women were generally more nurturing, I probably would
>agree.  But compassion is something that all humanity shares.

What's the difference between nurturing and compassion?


>As a writer and practictioner of magic, I am very familiar
>with male and female differences, masculine and feminine
>differences, and so on.  Sexism is not seeing differences
>but in see superiorities.  

How can there be differences without there being superiorities?


>If you want to say that
>compassion, for example, is feminine, I would probably
>go along, but this has nothing to do with women being
>more compassionate than men, which is not a true statement.

If women are more feminine than men, and if compassion is feminine, how
could women not be more compassionate than men?