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- From: kamal@specialix.co.uk (Kamal Mortoza)
- Subject: Re: phrases and sex roles
- Organization: Specialix International, London
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:19:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.101944.10957@specialix.co.uk>
- References: <MUFFY.93Jan18235429@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan19.164911.8468@specialix.co.uk> <iw.727554128@tosser> <1993Jan21.224203.10471@ctp.com>
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- sthor@ctp.com (Sarah Thornburg) writes:
-
- >In article <iw.727554128@tosser> iw@tosser.Rational.COM (The_Devine_Dolly) writes:
- >>kamal@specialix.co.uk (Kamal Mortoza) writes:
- >>
- >>>YES - I agree completely. Alice and I are a mixed gender couple, but
- >>>certainly not a hetrosexual couple.
- I should have phrased this more carefully, that sentence was in
- response to one point about definitions for couples of mixed gender. The
- follow on was regarding the point of gender oriented role-playing. I did NOT
- mean to imply that only non-hetro couples can break the mould. We have known
- some straight couples that do - one to the point of complete reversal. But I
- can see - now that I look at what I wrote - that one could misinterpret what
- I was trying to say.
-
- Kamal
- >>>Why shouldn't I do the cooking,
- >>>washing, etc ? Why shouldn't she play baseball with our boys ? Ofcourse,
- >>>we have both done it this way.
- >>
- >>There seems to be an implicit assumption here that heterosexual couple
- >>equates to traditional patriarchal man/woman roles.
- >>I do not think that this is fair or accurate.
- >>
- >>Iseult.
-
- >Too true! I know plenty of couples, who, if we're playing the "sorting into
- >bins" game, are heterosexual - neither are interested in
- >"homosexual/bisexual relations", ie are exclusively attracted to / involved
- >with motos, - but who are very "liberal" and rarely follow "tradiational"
- >male/female roles. They're still heterosexual.
-
- >*Sarah* :) (knowing full well that she doesn't want to get drawn into the
- >definitions quagmire, but can't resist this)
- >--
- >Sarah Thornburg | "Love that dirty water....
- >Cambridge Technology Partners | Boston you're my home."
- >sthor@ctp.com |
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