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useless commentary?

Jan 15, 1997 06:57 AM
by Mark Kusek


>>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?

Nourishment in action as contrasted with sympathy and the desire to help
relieve suffering.


>>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?

That does seems to be the question you keep getting stuck on.
I'd suggest "with love, mutual respect and appreciation."


>>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? 

Because you are generalizing again.

Mark
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