Re: The Origin of The Cravat (Was: Are Ties Phallocarps?)

Mike Bender (mikeb@isi.com)
30 Oct 1995 16:48:45 GMT

All of the discussions on the time have missed what I feel is the REAL
REASON for the tie -- to create a symbolic separation between the body
and the head. The "head" represents the place where thinking takes
place and the "body" represents the place where our emotions reside.

This also explains why:

1) Women are less likely to wear ties
Since women are not expected to separate their emotions from
their thinking as much as men.

2) When women enter management it is more likely to see them wearing
ties.
It is a way of demonstrating that they, too, have given up their
emotional side.

Mike

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