Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!oaf From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Temporary, cyclical(?) partial incapacity... Message-ID: <580@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 19:45:41 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.580 Posted: Thu Aug 8 19:45:41 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:05:34 EDT Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 32 In article <641@ttidcc.UUCP> regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) writes: [anecdote about an XSO] >?>?> He reacted very strongly to his eating cycles (blood sugar >?>?> fluctuation presumably). Whenever we went to dinner and had >?>?> to wait (either from late scheduling, or the place was >?>?> crowded), he would turn into a monster (or a little kid, >?>?> take your pick). I'll supply the testimonial that when I'm in shape and running a lot, I have low blood sugar reserves. I suffer if dinner's late. Older men I know who run seriously are extremely prone to that, and may faint if dinner is really late. Then she ruins it: >?>?> 1. Cyclical responses to hormones, enzymes, weather, >?>?> god-knows-what affects both sexes of the species, and we >?>?> have yet to separate the effects into individual components >?>?> that justify stereotyping; and ------------------------------ >?>?> 2. Using a label to justify a prejudice is just a power >?>?> play. PMS is a collective term for a number of symptoms >?>?> that a percentage of women may suffer to some degree. And >?>?> that's about all it is. Dammit, Adrienne, there's no point in writing reasonable messages if the only things picked up on are idiotic ones, as claimed in your previous posting! BTW, I agree, and have been aggrieved by the dip**** topic "PMS and competence" since it first appeared. Could we bury this issue at a crossroads with a steak driven through its heart? -- Oded Feingold {decvax, harvard, mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA MIT AI Laboratory 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617-253-8598