Re: hearing, gender, new info...

["andre" <andre@monmouth.com>]

> Subject: hearing, gender, new info...
> Date: Sunday, August 17, 1997 7:38 PM
> 
>   This might be of more concern to Laurie, (as she was asking about more
> info about hearing and gender) Sarahjane and Kim but I remebered some
other
> information I learned about possible differences in hearing between the
> genders.  There was a special edition of 20/20 a few months back which
was
> strictly devoted to the discussion of cerebral differences between
genders.
>  This show touched on the subject hearing, but not in the way we've been
> talking about it.  I didn't go into any possible differences in physical
> ability to hear, it discussed it from the point of view that we process
> things differently in our brains.  

just to morph 2 recent (semi-off-)topics...
...and this from the current NYC weekly Village Voice, in their great "mad
on the street" feature where they ask 8 or 10 people a stock set of 4-5
questions...this week the questions revolved around... (the following is
simply quoted from VV March 17 1998)

QUEER EARS - Researchers announced last week that lesbians have a physical
trait different from heterosexual women; a less sensitive inner-ear, much
like that of a male. So, is homosexuality genetic? Or do we have a choice?


-andre east