Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!regard From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: PMS and the dreaded testosterone poison Message-ID: <695@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:26:32 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.695 Posted: Tue Aug 20 17:26:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 04:43:52 EDT Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 33 >> Adrienne Regard >> 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_? > Jeff Sonntag > 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, wait a minute, Jeff. You may be forgetting that this whole discussion began with the question of whether or not *ALL* women walked around with their minds "clouded" by the poison of PMS, so your conclusion above doesn't make any sense. Testosterone poisoning is probably just as bad/benign as PMS -- it affects some people not at all, some to a small degree, and a very small number of people to a large degree. It _does_ exist, but I'm sure you'd agree that it's a pretty slim basis for judging a complete character. Shall we try to quantify the whole of the human race in these two camps? Let's not, and say we did. > So apparently, either: > a.) Sunny's right, but my mind is too clouded by testosterone to > realize it. > b.) Sunny is wrong. Sunny is probably no more right or wrong than Ross Greenberg. . . . (No offense, you two. It's just a little hard to generalize from your obviously specific viewpoints. Er, you did take a viewpoint, didn't you Ross? You weren't just running the net around a mulberry bush?) Adrienne Regardd