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To: jagusafr
There may well be a true affective complementarity between males and females which can be generalized across cultures, but I'm not sure what it would be.

Nor am I sure that affective gender differences overwhelm individual temperaments. For instance: a particular emotionally spontaneous, expressive man may be more emotive than a particular reserved or stoical woman.

I am uncomfortable with calling that genderqueer or gender-variant or gender-anything. It's a matter of individual temperament and, often, culture.

8 posted on 07/10/2013 4:05:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (My short term memory isn't what it used to be. Also, my short term memory isn't what it used to be.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

While generalizations can be made about people, they cannot be put in a box.

If people were more willing to accept others as they are, without excusing sin in their lives, life would be so much easier.

There’s a difference between character qualities and personality and making bad life choices. character differences make the world go round. Bad choices and the (usually) associated consequences I have little time or sympathy for.


9 posted on 07/10/2013 4:23:42 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Agreed. We do such a disservice when we, e.g., label guys who like show tunes as “light in the loafers”. Heck, I sing along with Barry Manilow at the top of my lungs! Emotion and sensitivity don’t make one a homosexual.


13 posted on 07/10/2013 7:00:14 PM PDT by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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