Klarinet Archive - Posting 000855.txt from 2000/04

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music and gender
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:16:59 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Music and gender

> At 06:07 PM 4/19/2000 CST, Diane R. Karius wrote:
> > It's the old "double standard" at work. You must be assertive to
succeed,
> but to succeed is somehow "unfeminine," which makes success = failure!
How
> DO women manage to grow up without being hopelessly confused? The
> persistence of such ideas in the face of all the evidence to the contrary
> is mind-boggling.
>
>

Very simple (yet very hard). We decide what we want to do and go do it,
ignoring all else. Gender bias works both ways though. Men take a lot of
flak if they *want* to be house husbands, nurses, secretaries, etc.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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