Gender Bias For Memes

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 17:14:47 BST

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From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
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Subject: Gender Bias For Memes
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    Vincent,

    Take a look at this

    Male Female

    Sameness Difference
    order change
    single context ' fuzz the bounderies '
    schizophrenia depression
    suicide (guns) suicide attempt (poison)
    action language
    instinct raison
    consensus opportunism
    general special
    dasein mitzein
    Darwin ? Lamarck ?
         (objects) (waves) relationships
    genetc ? memetic ?
    la nature naturelle ? la nature artificiel ?

    from out these very general discriptions we can easily assume that the male/
    female distinction has a solid bias to continu on !!

    Although both categories are as well male as female oriented we can suppose
    that on the ' original ' genetic/ memetic bias the discriptions are more male/
    more female processed and so the memes which evolved from this would too !?

    What do you think !?

    With thanks to Chris Lofting, I used some ideas...

    regards,

    Kenneth

    (I am, because we are)

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