Do I think it&#39;s an issue? It isn&#39;t to me. We&#39;re talking about women as a group, I don&#39;t think this is a statement fundamentally different than &quot;men are taller than women&quot;. That statement doesn&#39;t mean that I&#39;m not taller than my brother (hah!) or that Julia Child didn&#39;t exist. It just means that the average man is taller than the average woman. <br>

<br>But then again, some people consider the insinuation that women as a class are different than men as a class to mean precisely that. (Witness all the statements like &quot;I&#39;m a woman, and I edit Wikipedia, so there must not be a gender gap issue&quot; or &quot;some of the most prolific Wikipedians are women, so there&#39;s no problem with women in general not editing.&quot;) <br>

<br>Nepenthe<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Sandra ordonez <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sandratordonez@gmail.com">sandratordonez@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

<div class="im"><i>&quot;Do you think it is an issue that people say  <font face="Arial" size="2"> &quot;women are turned off by 
all the fighting and feuding&quot; and really mean &quot;women are too fragile&quot;</font></i><br><br><br></div>I couldn&#39;t agree more with laura. I always say, I already come from a dysfunctional family and have no choice if I have to interact with them.. LOL:)  However, I do have a choice in every other area of my life. <br>


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