>It seems to me that there is in American culture a tendency to regard
>"nurturing" as an essentially soft, "feminine" form of activity, which
>leads to the development of spinelessness on the part of the nurturee,
>and grows out of a "touchy-feely" mindset on the part of the teacher.
I would like to rephrase this sentence.
"It seems to me that there is in American mainstream culture a tendency
to regard nurturing as an essentially disempowering, over-protective
form of activity, often associated with the role of the feminine
gender, which leads to co-dependency on the part to the nurturee, and
grows out of the culural norms of teacher behavior."
Kathie
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