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- From: radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz)
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.172000.21275@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:20:00 GMT
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- ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley) writes:
- > Here, I'll make statements you don't
- > like; men are more hormonal about lots
- > and lots of things.
-
- Well, I don't like those statements. Men and women are
- "hormonal" about different things, but I wouldn't say
- that either men or women are "more" hormonal in general.
-
- Women are just "hormonal" about different things. Or perhaps
- even about the same things, but in different circumstances!
-
- > Where did [men] learn [violent behavior]?
- > I think it was genetically encoded; instinct.
-
- I think that violent behavior is *learned*, not
- instinct. My belief is based on a few specific
- cases, not on any scientific study (which, as we
- all know, don't exist). Some of the examples
- I've had are things women have done, and others
- are things men have done. Both men and women
- are violent. Both men and women are gentle.
-
- How about you, Ward. On what do you base your
- judgement that violent behavior is genetically
- encoded? Personal expience? If it's your own
- behavior, then you should also answer why it
- isn't simply a self-serving cop-out.
-
- If you add stories I've heard to the evidence
- that violence is learned, then one good example
- is Janis' father -- she said a while ago that
- he was a kind, gentle man.
-
- Bear Blessings!
-
- -- radzy
-