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...male or female physical characteristics; they become masculine or feminine in manner and outlook only after being exposed to the conventions of society. To many Women's Liberationists, masculinity and femininity are outmoded sexist concepts, and the current blurring of sex roles is a welcome development. To Charles Winick, professor of anthropology and sociology at the City University of New York, the rise of "unisex" in the U.S. has ominous connotations for the future of the nation. In a survey of 2,000 different cultures, Winick found that some 55 were characterized by sexual ambiguity. Not one of those...
...ancient Athens it was widely believed that there were no significant emotional differences between the sexes. Winick points out that Alcibiades, one of the leaders responsible for the city's defeat by Sparta, was condemned by Plutarch for his "effeminacy in dress-he would trail long purple robes through the Agora." On the Acropolis, it was hard to distinguish the statues by sex. Says Winick: "Hermes and Aphrodite have the same boyishly slender body, girlishly fine arms, and sexually undifferentiated expression...
...Barely There Face. In our own culture, Winick sees intersex everywhere. Clothes and hair are the least of it. Sales of jewelry and fragrances for men have risen massively in the past three years. Since World War II, there has been a 66% increase in the number of women tennis players, a 1,000% rise in women golfers. Every third gun-owner is a woman, and so is every fifth skydiver...
Last Saturday the Scientist witnessed a training feat of amazing proportions, Jack Van Berg, conditioning a string of horses--Marion Van Berg Stables. Inc., won four out of the ten races on Saturday's Rockingham Park card. When Arnold Winick won three out of ten races on a Tropical Park card in November of last year, the local papers hailed the local papers hailed the accomplishment as gargantuan...
...Norman Norell, perhaps because he is a designer, thinks that a woman actually has more sex appeal in trousers than in a dress. "Ripping off a woman's pants is sexier than ripping off a dress," he says. (And harder, it might be added.) But Sociologist-Author Charles Winick (The New People) probably comes closer to reflecting the majority masculine view. "Pants," he points out, "make extemporaneous sex more difficult." To say nothing about the fact that they also defeminize a shapely pair of legs...