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[Robert Weeks <robert AT designhammer.com>]

Thank you,

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Robert Weeks

Partner - Technology
DesignHammer Media Group, LLC
http://www.designhammer.com

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On 5/18/01 9:36 AM, "Diana Duncan" <art2mis AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

> What I don't understand is, why these types of things are of any interest,
> and why they are being researched.  People are people, and each and every
> one of us is different than every other -- we're like snowflakes.  The fact
> that I have brown hair as opposed to blond probably could be used to group
> me in a brunette category of email users.  The fact that we're a bunch of
> technologists that like beer obviously groups us.  As the only sane quote in
> the piece reads, "The key word is context."
> 
> I'm truly disturbed with the continuing characterization of men's speech as
> "instrumental, functional or transactional" which implies that women's
> speech is everything but.  This is a pervasive and untrue societal belief
> that fails to recognize the importance of human interaction.  Humans should
> be more than functional - otherwise we can easily be replaced by machines.
> 
> Whenever studies are done on the differences between men and women, or
> blacks and whites, or blondes and brunettes, it denigrates the basic
> principle that we are all human.  Our differences should be celebrated and
> accepted, not analyzed.  I'm human, damnit, and that's what I answer
> whenever some form asks for "race".  That's all that is important.
> 
> How's that for some strong assertions?
> 
> Diana
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rani Gill" <ranigrrl AT yahoo.com>
> To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:49 AM
> Subject: [internetworkers] NYTimes article: He-Mails, She-Mails: Where
> Sender Meets Gender
> 
> 
>> 
>> An interesting little piece on gender differences in using e-mail. My
>> favirote quote -- though I don't really agree with it:
>> 
>> Her research shows that in online groups, "men tend to make strong
>> assertions," disagree with others and use profanity, insults and
>> sarcasm. By contrast, women tend to use mitigated assertions along
>> with questions, offers, suggestions and polite expressions, she
>> said.
>> 
>> \----------------------------------------------------------/
>> 
>> He-Mails, She-Mails: Where Sender Meets Gender
>> 
>> 
>> By JOYCE COHEN
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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