Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calmasd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!calmasd!gail From: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: male hormones, pernicious new mythology Message-ID: <540@calmasd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:35:47 EDT Article-I.D.: calmasd.540 Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:35:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:39:39 EDT References: <601@mit-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA Lines: 33 Keywords: Sunny conversation (almost) nothing to do with PMS In article <601@mit-vax.UUCP> oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) writes: >end. Namely, they proceeded to try to "prove" that men are more >subject to raging hormonal cycles that women, hence in fact the weaker >sex when it comes to carrier landings and nuclear war. To her credit, >Cheryl Stewart (that one) did a beautiful spoof on the topic, but >others, and I name no names (bad memory, testosterone overload) really >tried to pull it off. If it's wrong to judge all women by PMS, isn't >it wrong to judge all men by whatever is the male equivalent? Don't >you owe yourselves that much personal integrity? Funny, I thought the whole point of those articles was to make those arguing that PMS implies incompetence realize just how absurd (and hurtful) the discussion is/was by turning it around and applying the same sort of pseudo-logic. > When will people realize that the way to respond to a stupid, >sexist remark which primarily displays its utterer's hostility, mental >laziness and lack of honesty is NOT by displaying your own? That it >is NOT necessary to subsume your correspondent's psychological defects >into your own response, then throw it back? ... > My patience is exhausted, and I firmly believe that if you can't >beat 'em, join 'em. Henceforth I feel no obligation to be reasonable >to anyone or anything, and will simply use net.women to work out my >own hostilities (you guys ain't seen nothin' yet)!! I see a contradiction here. Will contributing to the problem make it go away? Somehow I doubt it. -- Gail Bayley Hanrahan Calma Company, San Diego {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!gail