Are there fundamental differences between the sexes?
+++
Of character and temperament, for example.
+++
Or are we lead to these conclusions because we are never made to look into the mirror of our own sex.
We rationalise differences in personality by ascribing them to the most physically discernible difference; because this is easier than confronting our beauty or our flaws.
+++
Have you never known a man who was winsome or a woman who was cocksure?
+++
21.12.07
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Labels
- "microcine goes" (1)
- "teatro de verano" (1)
- "way of the morris" (1)
- 1927 (1)
- adderbury (1)
- aesthetics (1)
- and all the rest (21)
- art (27)
- brexit (2)
- cervantes (1)
- chile (1)
- cinema (6)
- crusoe (1)
- defoe (1)
- dreams (22)
- dublin (1)
- england (4)
- ethics (16)
- europe (1)
- foucault (1)
- ginzburg (1)
- goes (1)
- ireland (1)
- lima (1)
- literature (1)
- london (5)
- love (34)
- mariátegui (1)
- mexico (1)
- montevideo (22)
- morrissey (1)
- mortality (1)
- patagonia (1)
- plester (1)
- poesÃa (2)
- poetry (27)
- politics (14)
- pubs (2)
- punta arenas (1)
- quotations (11)
- relationships (47)
- renaissance (2)
- rilke (2)
- salome (1)
- sean o'casey (1)
- self-evident truths (21)
- shakespeare (1)
- society (35)
- stories (25)
- the plough and the stars (1)
- the self (61)
- theatre (2)
- tierra del fuego (1)
- travel (44)
- uk (6)
- uruguay (1)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(70)
-
▼
December
(19)
- the fidelity of pets
- look carefully before you cross the road
- as wordsworth and others observed
- the warrior
- how do we know unless we are gay
- sparkle
- in the library
- the nietzschean hippy
- note to parents
- madonna's sagacity
- ends and means
- the sunken italian garden in priors barton
- south west london tales 769002
- the long haul
- a 'runter'
- provisions
- in order to break the pattern
- protection
- attributes
-
▼
December
(19)
No comments:
Post a Comment