Re: A replication of Lever

genevieve patthey-chavez (ggpcinla who-is-at yahoo.com)
Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:00:34 -0700 (PDT)

--- Mike Cole <mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu> summarized:
> The correlates of
> game complexity differed for boys and girls.
> For boys, game complexity was
> negatively related to interpersonal
> understanding and positively related
> to understanding game rules. For girls, game
> complexity was positively
> related to interpersonal understanding
>

This made me think back to Carol Gilligan's
_In a Different Voice_. Even without reading
some of Goodwin's work, her titles echo some
of the concerns in that book. Keeping in mind
the dangers of essentializing gender (and the
ever-present seduction of easy contrast that
affords), the relationships between means & ends
(game complexity & game rules vs. interpersonal
understanding) indicate a different kind of
taking up & turning on for boys vs. girls.
To this day, I get bored by certain kinds of
play and turned on by others, and my preferences
map rather well onto the boys vs. girls divide.
I notice the same preferences in all kinds of
other spaces & activities ... (GGPC to friend:
I HATE set logic!)

(The gender ghetto looms ... but I'm not about
to make friends with set logic to save the
world (;-)!)

genevieve

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