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sadguy
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 Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:36 pm Post subject: why do girls have better handwriting than boys? |
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| anybody know why? |
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ThingsComeAround
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do boys have cooler graffiti than girls? |
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sadguy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| Why do boys have cooler graffiti than girls? |
is that even true? do you even know of any female street artists? they're probably just as good. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Fine motor coordination in the hands. Steadier nerves. I can't recall where I read it, but men's nerves are more "tingly" because of the need for fast-twitch action. Whereas women's are more steady and precise. |
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sadguy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Fine motor coordination in the hands. Steadier nerves. I can't recall where I read it, but men's nerves are more "tingly" because of the need for fast-twitch action. Whereas women's are more steady and precise. |
what about men who do fine detailed work like surgeons, artists, calligraphists, tattooists, yet i'm sure those dudes probably have worse handwriting than their female counterparts. |
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brickabrack
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| Why do boys have cooler graffiti than girls? |
is that even true? do you even know of any female street artists? they're probably just as good. |
Ya? It's very true.
As for girls and boys, most boys don't give a spit. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| Fine motor coordination in the hands. Steadier nerves. I can't recall where I read it, but men's nerves are more "tingly" because of the need for fast-twitch action. Whereas women's are more steady and precise. |
what about men who do fine detailed work like surgeons, artists, calligraphists, tattooists, yet i'm sure those dudes probably have worse handwriting than their female counterparts. |
The women in these industries tend to be better than men. The best tattooists are female as they also have a lighter touch. I have had many a male tattooist tell me that.
Now, to pre-empt your next question "why aren't there as many females in these industries?"
Well that's a question that will lead to a multitude of sociological theories and is a Pandora's box I can't be bothered opening right at this point in time. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Women care more about appearance than men in general and handwriting is one aspect of it. There's your answer. |
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rchristo10
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| Because they don't. It's a generalization. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| rchristo10 wrote: |
| Because they don't. It's a generalization. |
i take it that you don't look at your students papers. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| nero wrote: |
| sadguy wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| Fine motor coordination in the hands. Steadier nerves. I can't recall where I read it, but men's nerves are more "tingly" because of the need for fast-twitch action. Whereas women's are more steady and precise. |
what about men who do fine detailed work like surgeons, artists, calligraphists, tattooists, yet i'm sure those dudes probably have worse handwriting than their female counterparts. |
The women in these industries tend to be better than men. The best tattooists are female as they also have a lighter touch. I have had many a male tattooist tell me that.
Now, to pre-empt your next question "why aren't there as many females in these industries?"
Well that's a question that will lead to a multitude of sociological theories and is a Pandora's box I can't be bothered opening right at this point in time. |
you're saying that women are better than men in the tattoo world? in what regard? purely on a technical level? because from a creative standpoint, i'd say that's debatable. |
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Zyzyfer
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Why can boys make machine gun sounds while girls can't? |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Why can boys make machine gun sounds while girls can't? |
Pew Pew Pew!  |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| rchristo10 wrote: |
| Because they don't. It's a generalization. |
i take it that you don't look at your students papers. |
That would be anecdotal. You also haven't supported your initial claim that girls have better handwriting than boys. Which may be true, it would help your case if you supported it with evidence before trying to knock others whose claims are similarly posted unsupported. In other words people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, especially if they throw like a girl. |
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rchristo10
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| rchristo10 wrote: |
| Because they don't. It's a generalization. |
i take it that you don't look at your students papers. |
Proof why generalizations can lead to faulty conclusions: I'M NOT A TEACHER!
If you do a cross-country comparison of countries/ languages that stress handwriting as a sign of social status (Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Tagalog, Mongolian and several other languages/ countries--which make up a large portion of the female and male writers around the world--though they may not come from the most developed places), then you'd find that in actuality males are often better (trained) than females in the art of handwriting.
If you mean in the US and Korea, perhaps because parents stress handwriting more with girls than with boys, which leads to girls comparing their handwriting with one another at school and actually working to make it better. Whereas boys find it less important and stress other things, like making machine gun sounds as someone mentioned earlier. |
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