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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS
Message-ID: <217@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 14:16:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.217
Posted: Mon Aug 19 14:16:38 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:39:26 EDT
References: <3688@decwrl.UUCP> <417@timeinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Summary: Are you sure you read that right,Ross?

>In article <3688@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@miles.DEC  writes:
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>>Ross, you must meet a lot of males who experience PMS, no?  I must, if I 
>>follow those rules.
>>
>>No, it's not reasonable to assume that because of a temporary change
>>in personality that a woman may be suffering from PMS.  It's actually pretty
>>rude behavior to make such arbitrary assumptions.


In article <417@timeinc.UUCP>greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg
replies:
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>... I won't deny that men and women
>share the same hassles in life.  But *some* women may also suffer
>from PMS.
>
>But, to you at least, there ain't no such thing as PMS.  Perhaps you
>have a problem recognizing it in others because you always seem to
>be in a state of irritability.  But just denying that PMS exists
>doesn't make any sense to me.
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At this point, this whole posting doesn't make sense. The article
that was quoted did not imply that there was no such thing as
PMS. The drift that I got was that the majority of "crankiness"
in women is not a result of problems with PMS or one's period!
In short, not ALL women have PMS. In fact a majority don't.
(A point you seemed to have gotten..) Therefore it is not fair to
immediately assume that because some female is irritable, IT'S
BECAUSE SHE HAS PMS or she having her period! Generally it isn't.

(Note: I'm not dening the existence of PMS. I can't. I'm one
of the victims. I'd not wish it on anyone. But I do know it's
not affected my work nor my career as a geologist and now a
computer research scientist. Basically, I just wish people
would remember to give each other the benifit of the doubt,
and not jump to conclusions.)

Anyway....This topic seem to have degenerated into name
calling and irritable remarks from both sexes. Let's go on
to other topics, or at least get back to less emotionalized
replies which convey more useful info or thought.....
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				Pamela M.Pincha-Wagener
				(bcsaic!pamp)
Boeing has VERY DEFINITELY NOT made me their spokesperson.
These are my views, I worked hard for them--Boeing can't have them.
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