REASON AND VALUES EXEMPLIFIED IN GENDER ISSUES  by Kristo Ivanov, prof. em., Umeå University (2017, version 251028-1115) (https://archive.org/details/ManKvi1979)(https://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/ManKvi1979Pref.html)   PREFACE and ADDENDUM [Preliminary note: In later years the references in my writing have been made by means of a profusion of links in my text, for the purpose of further research as explained in my general disclaimer.]  CONTENTSLink to a general disclaimerPrerequisite for reading this textWhy “Gender and Reason”The Christian Catholic viewBeyond the Catholic viewReturning to the Catholic view, and rapeSexual pathology and diversityDepathologizing HomosexualityThe technological turn for depathologizingTeenager’s suicide allegedly caused by AI-chatbotThe social semantic turn for depathologizingConsequences: what does “woman” mean?Man and Woman -- Final corruptionI and Thou – In God                                                                                     Prerequisite for reading this text This is a long introduction or preface to the enclosed scanned manuscript (353 pages, in Swedish) written between 1977 and 1979 prior to my appointment as full professor of informatics, with pressing obligations and scarcity of time that stopped this kind of research. It aimed at an analysis of the difference between a supposedly "masculine" techno-logical thought as embodied in computers and technology, and a corresponding "feminine" thought. In such a context the whole is loosely related to another paper of mine on Reason and evaluative emotion published in 2014 and written 1980-1981. Having been published in 2017 but authored in 1977-1979, this present paper is listed on my research page among the works up to the year of retirement 2002.It portrays my route towards the need and application of details of analytical psychology that I was studying at the time in the complete works of Carl Jung. It enabled me to understand the rest here below. I estimate that the reading or previous knowledge of the Swedish text (that is, the 353 pages) is a pre-requisite for, or rather facilitation for understanding the text that follows here below, which paradoxically in turn fosters the deeper understanding of the Swedish text. For those who do not read Swedish, the knowledge of the required knowledge of the Swedish text corresponds to and can be obtained from the reading of the about 300 pages of the volume 7 of Jung’s Collected Works with the title Two Essays on Analytical Psychology that can be purchased, for instance, here.This preface is an already too long and rather unstructured concentrate (“Addendum”) of what I would have elaborated in longer texts if I had continued my research along the same main path of this essay on "Reason and Gender", instead of what became my path in information science. Therefore, what follows is intended to be used by those readers who need to continue this research, and the extensive references are given below in the spirit explained – I repeat -- in my general disclaimer already mentioned above. Proceed here to the rest of this Preface.Proceed here (pdf-format) directly to the 353 pages of the essay in Swedish language.