1%ers all
Just took the K/M B web test and miracles of miracles the results were "Portrait of an Architect
(iNTp)". In as much as "Architect" is what I do to feed my face and keep a roof over my head it's
somewhat comforting to have an appropriate personality. However, that the Hells Angels motorcycle
gangs also claim 1%er's status based on their purported unshackling of freedom from social
constraints is not entirely lost on me.
John has raised an issue that recently resurfaced in my thoughts.
> It seems to me that this is both an intellectual thing and a male thing.
> The extremely small number of female contributors in both forums might indicate something
> significant is going on here. So far as I am aware there is no sex difference in the spread of
> personality types, though obviously social roles influence the way they are expressed by each
> sex.
The rereading of the first three chapters of Lila for the focussed discussion brought to mind an
incident of loaning a copy of Lila to a women friend some years ago and having it returned a year
later unread. Her primary reason was that she just couldn't get past negative female image
portrayed in chapter one and then "all that philosophy"!
Why is it that, if as John suggests that personality types are rather evenly distributed acrossed
gender lines, that few women, either historically or as evidenced in these forums, are attracted to
philosophy or to philosophize? And does this tendancy doom philosophy as a project to truely improve
our understanding of the human condition?
Dave
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