CompuServe Messages

Hmmmmm. I detect a peculiar two valued logic system here. "bias *toward* one pole is a bias *against* its opposite". Maybe, but ONLY if the word 'opposite' is correct. If I admit a bias *toward* males make me *against* women? I think not. Suppose I add a simple word 'human'. Suppose I admit a bias *toward* _human_ males. Maybe I'm just xenophobic? Nah, that's not (intellectually) likely…dunno haven't met any 'aliens' in the flesh yet. I'm astonished that you still consider man/woman as "opposites". Yeah, I know, common usage 'opposite sex' and all that. But don't you see, it's phrases like "opposite sex" that have us all confused. I should point out that for many years I used the phrase, and it wasn't until a young lady pointed out that 'other sex' was perhaps more appropriate that I started using it…and probably got away from the semantic trap of the phrase 'opposite sex'. _We_ (males, females) DO have a lot more in common than differences… opposite is just NOT the right word. Victor A. Wagner, Jr.