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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Male/Female Roles
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 00:16:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 00:16:44 1984
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Seems to me that I heard about a year ago that the 
two top drivers in nation drag-racing competition in some category
were women.  Note that by "some category" I am *not* suggesting 
that there was some meeker category that women could be tops in;
if memory serves me correctly, it was one of the most "macho" categories:
"top fuel" (isn't that the one where you use nitroglycerin as fuel ?).

Same goes for at least one category (again, not some docile division)
of airplane racing or aerobatics, I think.
Apparently, control and finesse are more important than brute strength
in these areas.  Haven't women often been delegated labor requiring
fine attention to detail (a form of control and finesse) throughout history ?

An interesting aside: if it turns out that women take over these
previously male domains, what does that suggest about women serving
in combat roles in the military, as, say, fighter pilots ?
I mean, we would want our best pilots defending our countries, wouldn't we ?

(Sorry I couldn't be more specific with my information;
maybe someone can provide details)

-- Clay Phipps

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