Mathew Forstater said:  
>Can people not understand the difference between endorsing the notion  
>that 'rationality is masculine' and the point made by Nelson quoted  
>(from the "respectable" journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives)  
>in the previous e-mail that, historically, "people in U.S. and European  
>cultures tend to mentally *associate* certain characteristics with  
>masculinity or femininity," including, possibly, rationality with  
>masculinity (or verse-vice-a)?  
  
  
Yes, I see this difference clearly.  Cultural layers get added to almost any  
concept.  
  
Samuel Bostaph