worryingly jolly batman

Because, as she says in her writing, "man represents both the positive and the neutral..." ie there are not specified roles for the straight caucasian male. I mean, of course that isn't true, there are some and not all straight caucasian men are happy conforming to them- nursing, for example, is a career in which men are either not wholly accepted or still regarded in a certain light. However, the roles for a straight caucasian male, the restrictions upon him, are different and generally less binding than that on another group. In this time. Because of this, the straight caucasian male is more likely to write a book or paint a painting or whatever that is... well, I was going to say influenced by his straight caucasian maleness, but of course that isn't true. But it is less, say, preoccupied with that, because the straight caucasian male has nothing to prove: he is "both the positive and the negative." Whereas the gay maori male* may wish both to reaffirm his place as a Maori, may wish to say something about being gay. But what is there to say about being a stright caucasian male? gradually of course there will be more to say about that and less about any of the others but now, as society is now, it remains relevant. Similarly for women. Eventually of course either all factors will be equally relevant, or all equally irrelevant...

... or will they? I mean, as a woman, a girl, I think I do have some ideas, some way of thinking, that is different from the male. Is that a product of society, is it biological, what is it? I don't know. But maybe that will always be relevant, or maybe not.

*I'm thinking of Witi Ihimaera here, okay, so sue me...