Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 490 | The gender of a task commonly has a plausible rationale. |
| 7 | 491 | It seems to be the men, for example, who are best suited to be the warriors and the women who are best suited to be the lovely, desirable prizes of such warriors. |
| 7 | 492 | Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble fingers, would be better suited to exacting, fine tasks such as beadwork and sewing. |
| 7 | 493 | Similarly, it is natural to expect that the general, sex-linked orientations and predispositions, statistically obvious, both male and female, of human beings, presumably functions of genetic and hormonal differences, would tend to be reflected, broadly, in the sorts of tasks which each sex tends to perform most efficiently and finds most congenial. |
| 7 | 494 | Some tasks, of course, from the biological point of view, may be sex-neutral, so to speak. |
| 7 | 495 | Whether sex-neutral tasks exist or not is an interesting question. |
| 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. |
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The gender of a task commonly has a plausible rationale.
It seems to be the men, for example, who are best suited to be the warriors and the women who are best suited to be the lovely, desirable prizes of such warriors.
Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble fingers, would be better suited to exacting, fine tasks such as beadwork and sewing.
Similarly, it is natural to expect that the general, sex-linked orientations and predispositions, statistically obvious, both male and female, of human beings, presumably functions of genetic and hormonal differences, would tend to be reflected, broadly, in the sorts of tasks which each sex tends to perform most efficiently and finds most congenial.
Some tasks, of course, from the biological point of view, may be sex-neutral, so to speak.
Whether sex-neutral tasks exist or not is an interesting question.
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.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter )