Well done. I see both you and Graywolf managed successfully to ignore this part of my email:
> *this is not necessarily a direct result of any genetic differences, > but could derive from the greater social power of men historically. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 October 2006 17:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Your first camera > > In a message dated 10/22/2006 8:43:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > it is a truism* that historically most artists, sculptors etc. are > also men, and men are supposedly more visually-oriented than women. So > a non-gearhead explanation could be that men are more likely to want > to go out and take pictures. > ====== > Phsaw, phooey, and crap. Double crap. > > Culturally over the centuries women were held back from > becoming artists, > etc. Had to have babies and feed the male hordes, including > male artists and > sculptors, etc. Their place was in the home, they had smaller > brains, they were > illogical, all emotional, couldn't manage complicated tasks, > understand > technical things, etc. For instance, I grew up when there > were no women news anchors > on TV, and the most available jobs for women were: teacher, teller, > stewardress, nurse, and social worker -- the helper fields. > It hasn't been all that long > since gender prejudices were socially acceptable and active. > And in some > instances still are, although women have made a lot of > progress since the 1960's. > And I am still only talking about Western cultures, since > those prejudices are > still quite active, barring women from jobs, in other cultures. > > So now that Western women are supposedly "liberated" and > supposedly can hold > any job, get back to me in another 200-1,000 years and see if those > artist/photographer percentages haven't changed. > > If you want you daughters to grow up enjoying photography, > hand them a camera > young. > > As a female programmer, a very small minority in that field > in my age group, > I am pretty familiar with gender stereotypes and unconscious > assumptions and > prejudices. > > Arts and Crafts, quilting, needlepoint, lace making, sewing, > etc. were > socially acceptable visual fields for women for centuries. > They couldn't lift a > brush, not appropriate for most past eras and places, but, > boy, they were allowed > to lift a needle. > > Have a Nice Day!, Marnie aka Doe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
