On Mon, Nov 25, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: >>On Mon, Nov 25, 2013, Walt wrote: >>> >>> The question seems to boil down to why women and men are treated >>> differently as photographic subjects. Well, it's because they're >>> different. >> >>...and why do you think they're different? > > There are several reasons. First of all there it's sociological > conditioning. Then there is the case that the mix of emotion affecting > hormones trends to skew differently in men than in women, otherwise > folks who are transitioning wouldn't need to take hormones for their > target gender.
Most trans people I know take the hormones more for the physical effect. > While it is wrong to make blanket assumptions about someone's > preferences out abilities based on their plumbing, it is just as wrong > to insist that everyone is the same. > > Statistically, men and women behave differently. For example, look at > the gender distribution on this list. In a similar vein,I have had > many more women ask me to photograph them than men, and they are far > more likely to ask to be photographed nude. Well, yes, but as you pointed out, it really is unclear how much of that social. Moreover, the variation between individuals is much greater than the differences between the sexes (the curves overlap >=90% for anything not attributable to socialization -- such as height, and even height has some social component because e.g. nutrition has social factors). -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
