Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 499 | Let us suppose, for View more quotes about example">example, that the cutting of leather for moccasins is such a task. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 496 | Such a task would seem to be one in which the sexual nature of a human being, with all its attendant physiological and psychological consequences, was irrelevant. |
| 7 | 497 | It seems likely that sex-neutral tasks, at least of an interesting nature, do not exist. |
| 7 | 498 | We shall suppose, however, for the purposes of argument, that there do exist such tasks. |
| 7 | 499 | Let us suppose, for example, that the cutting of leather for moccasins is such a task. |
| 7 | 500 | Now among the red savages this task, supposedly sex-neutral, for the purposes of argument, is always, or almost always, performed by females. |
| 7 | 501 | This calls attention to an interesting anthropological datum. |
| 7 | 502 | The performance of even tasks which may be "sex-neutral," tasks that do not seem to have an obvious biological rationale with respect to gender, tends to be divided, in culture after culture, on a sexual basis. |
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Such a task would seem to be one in which the sexual nature of a human being, with all its attendant physiological and psychological consequences, was irrelevant.
It seems likely that sex-neutral tasks, at least of an interesting nature, do not exist.
We shall suppose, however, for the purposes of argument, that there do exist such tasks.
Let us suppose, for example, that the cutting of leather for moccasins is such a task.
Now among the red savages this task, supposedly sex-neutral, for the purposes of argument, is always, or almost always, performed by females.
This calls attention to an interesting anthropological datum.
The performance of even tasks which may be "sex-neutral," tasks that do not seem to have an obvious biological rationale with respect to gender, tends to be divided, in culture after culture, on a sexual basis.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)