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solveig:

hej min smukke...har lige vasket gulv! Nu er det så meningen at jeg skal skrive en opgave om køn og intelligens. Har du nogle gode ideer? Ser du osse er fan af detektivmusikken!! Håber din dag bliver dejlig. nordlysogkys fra Solveig

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magga:

ja...for exsample om hvordans "skills" forandrer sig hvis folk tager hormon. Saa engang en documentarie om en pige som vil bli en fyr. Hun fik testosteron og om nogle maaneder bliv hun bedre til matematik og den slags men daarligere til at kende föelser paa andsigts udtryk. Meget intressant... Det samme sker naar fyre faar östrogen. Du kan ogsaa kigge paa de syv intelligenser (seven types of intelligence) som jeg synes at er mere fornuftigt end at maale intelligens med den gamle dumme test som næsten kun handler om den saakalte logiske intelligens.

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solveig: 

interessant det med hormonerne og intelligensen. Desværre virker disse pointer selvom de er nok så velunderbyggede ofte konserverende for den gældende, normsættende og ikke så lidt polariserede kønsstuktur.
Jeg synes der er grund til at reflektere over hvordan køn bliver undersøgt videnskabeligt og spørge os selv hvad vi vil bruge vores viden til Jeg mener: man får jo svar på det man spørger om. Hvorfor så ikke spørge om hvad der adskiller fillipinske linedansere fra russiske minearbejdere af samme køn? Hvad får vi ud af at fokusere på forskellene?

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magga:

oh yes... this one is in english... too tired to write in dk...

excactly... I am so bored with all this "spot the difference" thing. the differences are really different between each individual (depending on various things) and at the same time there are things that make people of the same sex have particular things in common... and of course, because we are all human, we have even more things in common. We also have things in common with cats and dogs, because we are mammals.

Personally I think it´s a bit of a waste of time to roll around in this. I am so fed up with the first generation feminism that is flowering over here (anti porn, anti this, anti that) and belive that it´s much nicer to march with... so instead of anti this and that we should be for this or for that. Like pro feminin, pro erotica (if that´s the opposite of porn) etc... All this anti crap is soooo last season.

Right now... I am very pro good parenting and friendship, pro self seeking and pro fun.
That thing you said about us being forgetful, bourgeois, and self involved made me suddenly begin to celebrate that fact. I am so happy that I can waste my time on Myspace, travel, drink soy latte, read news about Paris Hilton, go to the shrink and think about the way I look. I fucking love it and suffer not from white mans guilt... it´s decadent and glorious, blissfully childish and in fact something to really appreciate. And then that part about miss Nightingale... well?
E.T. put it really simple when he said "Be good".

I think you are really good my friend :)