[HPFGU-OTChatter] Hair, personality and gender

[Terry van Ettinger]

Well. there're people like me; I don't think I am all that much like my
gender. Let me just ask you all this by way of demonstration.  Which gender
do you take me for?

Terry
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From: "Tabouli" <tabouli at unite.com.au>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 2:38 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Hair, personality and gender


> Elkins:
> > (I let it all grow back.  I've had long hair my entire
> life, and I...well, I just couldn't adapt to the short-hair thing,
> I'm afraid.  I'm far too set in my ways.) <
>
> Ah!  For some reason, I've *always* pictured you (Elkins) with long hair!
Is it brown and somewhat wavy as well?
>
> Barb:
> > Where did anyone get the idea that personality and gender are in ANY
> WAY related?<
>
> I'm inclined to disagree with this.  Related in the inborn, genetic sense,
perhaps not (although even that's debatable - women are born with a bigger
corpus callosum linking the hemispheres of the brain, significantly
different biological equipment, etc.)  In terms of socialisation, though,
girls and boys are raised *so* differently, and get *such* different
messages about how they're expected to behave, I think gender and
personality are inevitably going to be related (though not, I imagine, in a
way which would show up on an HP quiz!).  I don't mean to say that men
*can't* exhibit stereotypically "female" behaviour and vice versa, it's more
that men and women are having their behaviour measured on gender-specific
scales.  The sort of behaviour which might be acceptable for a woman could
easily be unacceptably far from the norm in a man, and vice versa.  And as
anyone who's been marginalised knows, it affects the personality a lot.
>
> Hmm.  Thoughts?  Counter-arguments?
>
> Tabouli.
>
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