Re: [Aroid-l] Aroids: "Equal Opportunity" obsession?

From: a san juan kalim1998 at yahoo.com> on 2005.07.22 at 16:37:36(13225) Obviously, we are not talking absolutes here, but generalities...much like a curve describes a natural population, there will always be the exceptions. It's like a guy whose Toyota goes bad then makes the implication that Toyotas are bad in general, even though to get a more accurate picture one needs to look at a much larger population of Toyotas. I am also a member of several aggregations, and there are areas which are tilted definitely towards one gender - hymenopterans such as ants for example attract vastly more men than women, even thought there are some very good women researchers and enthusiasts. Anyways, I was just curious, since this came up in another group.... +More --- Hermine Stover wrote: > At 01:23 PM 7/21/05, LLmen wrote: > >>I think women are rather attracted by wonderful > flowers (anthuria, roses, > >>orchids), especially big and scented. Men are > analysts, want to know > >>what's inside, what is it made of, how it works... > >> > >>Me > > > > > >Also, I think that men are more interested in > "architectural" plants. > > > >-- > >Don Martinson > > > I am an architect and i rather dislike flowers, > roses in particular. > > hermine > ps I think this is a silly subject for a thread > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-l mailing list > Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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