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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: PMS and the dreaded testosterone poison
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:26:32 EDT
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>> Adrienne Regard
>> 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_?

> Jeff Sonntag
>     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, wait a minute, Jeff.  You may be forgetting that this whole discussion
began with the question of whether or not *ALL* women walked around with
their minds "clouded" by the poison of PMS, so your conclusion above
doesn't make any sense.  Testosterone poisoning is probably just as
bad/benign as PMS -- it affects some people not at all, some to a small
degree, and a very small number of people to a large degree.  It _does_
exist, but I'm sure you'd agree that it's a pretty slim basis for judging a
complete character.  Shall we try to quantify the whole of the human race
in these two camps?  Let's not, and say we did.

>     So apparently, either:
>        a.) Sunny's right, but my mind is too clouded by testosterone to
>            realize it.
>        b.) Sunny is wrong.

Sunny is probably no more right or wrong than Ross Greenberg. . . .
(No offense, you two.  It's just a little hard to generalize from your
obviously specific viewpoints.  Er, you did take a viewpoint, didn't you
Ross?  You weren't just running the net around a mulberry bush?)

Adrienne Regardd