Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Helen Faulkner <helen_ml_faulkner@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Partly it's knowing that I'm going to be dealing
> with a man (almost certainly), and he may assume I don't know what I'm
> doing, and he may put me down or be condescending or unkind as a
> result.

Are you assuming that all men will do this?  The men who do might well
be operating from a negative stereotype of women.  But it sounds to me
as if you are countering with your own negative stereotype of men.

Thomas