Jay West wrote (among other things): > On a technical list with adults, I believe that when someone posts something > on-topic which has portions you do not personally like that perhaps the adult > thing is to take the points that are in-common and expand on them, leaving > the points behind that you find offensive or inappropriate. The rest will be > dealt with off-list, as I have done in the past.
Exactly. I had many interesting discussions about this subject with my late mother and wouldn't mind seeing people's opinions here. Our discussions had a practical nature since I design computers for children and wanted to be careful not to come up with stuff that could contribute to the gender imbalance in this field and might even think of ways of reducing it. My mother was an author of several books on relationships and was firmly in the camp of biological differences. I pointed out that something that varied over the decades and was different from one country to another had to have a significant cultural component to it. My point is that we both respected the other's opinions and tried to research scientific studies to learn more about the subject. -- Jecel
