Another good thing about email is that the potential exists to avoid
being identified as a particular sex. Many women I've talked to (in
fact, I believe every woman I've ever talked to about this has had this
experience) have reported the following sort ot thing:
A woman's in a group, say, a business related meeting. She makes a
suggestion or states an opinion. Everyone pretty much ignores what she
said--maybe they look at her briefly and say "Uh huh," but that's about
it.
A few minutes later one of the male participants makes the same
suggestion or states the same opinion as the woman did earlier.
Everyone's very interested, they all get excited, ask questions, etc.
I have a transgendered friend who says that when she was a man she
worked on cars quite a bit. Recently she was riding in a shuttle van
when the air conditioning compressor began making a loud noise. The van
driver pulled over and sat in the sweltering heat until another van could
come and pick everyone up. No one would pay the slightest attention to
my friend when she tried to tell them it was just the air conditioning
compressor and that if they'd turn off the a/c and open the windows they
could continue to their destination. She says that in becoming female
she automatically lost at least 50 IQ points in the eyes of the world.
Barbara
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