[CAUT] Differences?

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 22:27 1/22/2006, you wrote:
>I don’t agree with Roger, we’re not all equal­at least not in innate 
>ability, and there are gender differences (thankfully).  David Love
><mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net>davidlovepianos@comcast.net
>
>David, you make it sound as if the differences in innate ability are due 
>to gender differences. Innate ability has nothing to do with gender. I 
>agree with Jeanne that women are intimidated not to try as children 
>because  the assumptions society forces on them makes it so difficult to 
>succeed. There are just as many women as men out there that can be a 
>complete technician. There are some physical differences such as upper 
>body strength and average size but they have nothing to do with whether or 
>not a person can figure out the adjustments on a piano action or voice a 
>hammer. My mother was 17 when she entered UC Berkeley and graduated in 
>three years, Phi Beta Kappa, a 3.95 grade average. She wanted to be an 
>engineer but that was not allowed in 1939. My Aunt Carol was the first 
>woman to be admitted to the med school she went to and became a physician 
>in 1952. I have heard complaints of the difficulty to get an education as 
>a piano technician, particularly for women. I assume this to be because it 
>is a male dominated mentor sort of education system that makes assumptions 
>about the innate ability of women and what they can or cannot do. Hey, get 
>me a cup of coffee.
>
>Keith Roberts
><mailto:kpiano@goldrush.com>kpiano@goldrush.com



All of us are equal. It's just that some are more equal than others.
(Apologies to Geo.Orwell.)

If we _were_ all equal in every way, it sure would be boring. I do my best 
to keep folks around here from getting bored...
;-}


Conrad Hoffsommer
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