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- From: ken@visix.com (Ken Mayer)
- Subject: Re: Interesting Concept
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:21:56 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec17.200526.25671@news.ysu.edu>
- <1992Dec17.232458.17291@colorado.edu>
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- A small refinement:
-
- -->On Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:24:58 GMT, devin@frodo.Colorado.EDU (Sonja Orlavski) said:
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- Sonja> Actually, this concept has been expressed before. (I saw it
- Sonja> myself in a scientific journal article about TG behaviour
- Sonja> somewhere.)
-
- Sonja> What it proposes is rating gender like this:
-
- Sonja> Masculine
- Sonja> ^
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> Non <-----------+-----------> Feminine
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> |
- Sonja> v
- Sonja> Non
-
- Sonja> (I use the term 'classic' to mean stereotypical gender
- Sonja> role...) The upper left hand corner (high-masculine,
- Sonja> low-feminine) is classic male, the upper right hand corner
- Sonja> (high-masculine, high-feminine) is androgynous, the lower
- Sonja> right hand corner (low-masculine, high-feminine) is classic
- Sonja> female, and the lower left hand corner (low-both) is neuter.
-
- So what's at (0,0)? I like the idea, but the math student in me says
- that the scale should stay in quadrant I:
-
- Ken> Masculine
- Ken> ^
- Ken> |
- Ken> |
- Ken> |
- Ken> |
- Ken> Non+-----------> Feminine
- Ken> Non
-
- Because you're measuring presence of something, not whether you have
- something or its opposite. Or to put it another way, there's
- non-Masculine, but no anti-Masculine (what would be called Feminine on
- a single axis scale). The extrema retain the same mapping as before.
- --
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