Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Sunny's PMS comments Message-ID: <1083@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:48:24 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1083 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:48:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:27:46 EDT References: <662@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 31 > So we finally get a comment from someone who may have dual insight and the > first thing we do is say "NAH! Obviously wrong!" > > I'm not suggesting that we automatically suppose that Sunny knows how the > world turns, and could she all show us the way, but automatic rejection based > on nothing but uninformed prejudice seems unnecessary, doesn't it? What > about looking at what was _said_? But I *was* reacting to what she _said_! She said that testosterone was a 'poison' which 'clouded the mind'. So what can we condlude from this? That all men are walking around with their bloodstreams filled with a mind clouding poison *and* that women (normally) *don't* have their minds clouded. Now if this were true, I'm sure that at some time in my life, I would have noticed that women were consistantly more intelligent and more clear- thinking than men. But I haven't noticed this. So apparently, either: a.) Sunny's right, but my mind is too clouded by testosterone to realize it. b.) Sunny is wrong. Gosh, I wonder what would happen if some female->male transexual on the net came up with the idea that estrogen is a mind-clouding poison? This would explain the basis for our patriarchial society, why there are so few women in high-tech jobs, etc. (please be aware, potential flamers, that I am *not* actually advocating this position - this is for illustrative purposes only.) Would he be flamed by the *same* people who have defended Sunny for saying the *same* thing? You bet. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Like a newuser (HACK!), flamed for the very first time..."