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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
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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.  

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Gail Bayley Hanrahan
Calma Company, San Diego
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