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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Sunny's PMS comments
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:48:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:48:24 1985
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> So we finally get a comment from someone who may have dual insight and the
> first thing we do is say "NAH!  Obviously wrong!"
> 
> 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_?

     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 if this were true, I'm sure that at some time in my life, I would
have noticed that women were consistantly more intelligent and more clear-
thinking than men.  But I haven't noticed this.
     So apparently, either:
	a.) Sunny's right, but my mind is too clouded by testosterone to
	    realize it.
	b.) Sunny is wrong.
     
     Gosh, I wonder what would happen if some female->male transexual on the
net came up with the idea that estrogen
is a mind-clouding poison?  This would explain the basis for our patriarchial
society, why there are so few women in high-tech jobs, etc.  (please be 
aware, potential flamers, that I am *not* actually advocating this position -
this is for illustrative purposes only.)  Would he be flamed by the *same*
people who have defended Sunny for saying the *same* thing?  You bet.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j
    "Like a newuser (HACK!), flamed for the very first time..."