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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 18:23:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 18:23:20 1985
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I must be incredibly dense, because I've never recognized any symptoms of
Pre-Menstrual Syndrome in women I've worked with.  As a matter of fact,
I've never recognized any symptoms of Menstrual or Post-Menstrual Syndrome
either.

That's not to say that the women I've worked with never got cranky or
irritable--they got just as cranky as the men I've worked with--but I'm
reluctant to ascribe this behavior to PMS.

Has anyone really worked with a woman whose job performance suffered so
noticeably when she was about to have her period?  Somehow, I doubt it.

I think the notion of "PMS and Incompetence" is absurd.
-- 
Bob Kaplan

"No gift is too great for my people."