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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
Message-ID: <360@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 16:54:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 27 16:54:14 1985
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In article <462@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes:
>
>(fine, this is a reasonable question, but you couldn't stop there, 
>could you, Ross?)
>
(Quoting me):
>> Since *some* women get VERY weird due to PMS, and these women
>> (if elected to office) would conceivable have their emotions doing
>> weird things during some important decision process, shouldn't this
>> be taken into account?                               ^^^^^^^^^
>
>Make up your mind, Ross, do you have an opinion or don't you?  If
>not, you should learn how to phrase a question properly, so as to
>avoid any confusion (seems this gets you in trouble over and over,
>doesn't it?) If so, then for Chrissakes just say what you think, 
>and if you get flamed for it then take it like a man instead of 
>constantly backing down and whining "I didn't mean THAT!"

I'll try not to back down, that wouldn't be a manly thing, you claim.
My mind is made up: if a *person* is gonna act weird and have responsibility
thrown on them, then I want to make damn sure that (since this has never
happened before) they don't do something weird that affects *my* life.

Perhaps I should take a break from this question for a while:
What started off as a simple question is suddenly turning into flames,
and that wasn't what I intended.

Oh.....BTW, I usually say what I want to say.  Sometimes people don't
read it carefully enough.  Like in the original question, I think
you could have read it (as intended) as "If PMS does weird things,
then should we take that into account".  No statement that we should
or shouldn't, which I *think* is what you jumped all over.


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