Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence Message-ID: <1764@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:50:24 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1764 Posted: Thu Aug 8 15:50:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 17:28:15 EDT References: <993@ubc-vision.CDN> <202@ihlpl.UUCP> <380@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 29 In article <380@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: > >Not so long ago, a women somewhere in England used PMS as a defense >for her murdering of a man. She used it as a "temporary insanity" >plea. > >I know that the National Org. of Women thought it was horrendous just >for the reason that a person like myself would bring it up. Okay. >I brought it up. Here is a case where *some* woman thought that her own >PMS was not a factor of "minor significance". > >Now, the women in England could have been anything from a prostitute >to the PM --- it really is of no matter. Consider that this >women was [probably] living an ordinary, regular life, probably successful >in whatever her endeavors were when suddenly -- BANG! --- she >murders someone due to (her claim) some pretty nasty PMS. > >So, once again, I ask: is PMS relevant? I would consider PMS >like the above to be something to consider. I support NOW's position fully. I don't think that PMS should be relevant, and I doubt that PMS can cause someone to murder someone else. I think the whole case was a piece of crock and the murderess, just that, a murderess who decided to capitalise on the current trend back to "biology is destiny". I haven't heard of any bad cases of PMS that appear without any warning symptoms. Has anybody else? -- Sophie Quigley {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie