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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (N. Ersha)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 10:42:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 10:42:15 1985
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>> PMS doesn't justify discrimination against individuals; but if PMS affects
>> a sizeable percentage of women, and thereby impairs job performance, it
>> might explain some of the *average* discrepancy in wages between men and 
>> women in comparable jobs.
>> 
>> I realize a lot of people out there would rather believe that the discrepancy
>> is entirely the result of discrimination; the pursuit of truth can be most
>> unpleasant to those who are so damn certain they have it all wrapped up in
>> a neat little bundle.

>You know, for somebody who started out sounding quite reasonable,
>you really wound up sounding like a jerk.  

YOU sound like just the type of person he was talking about in his
last paragraph.


>                                                  If you are
>going to even imply something like "PMS affects a sizeable percentage
>of women" then I think you should have a little more information
>to back it up.  You yourself admitted that your wife only had
>severe PMS immediately after having a child.  Doubtless that would
>have an effect on your hormones, but I really can't see how that
>could apply to women IN GENERAL.

If you'd bothered to READ his posting more carefully, you just MIGHT
have noticed he implied no such thing.  He said (see above) "*if*
(that's IF) PMS affects a sizable percentage of women, and thereby
[if it] impairs job performance, it *MIGHT*...".  Nowhere
did he imply anything--the situation was *hypothetical* (Can YOU say
"hypothetical"?).

I think your hip and ankle jerked along with your knee.


			Scott Berry
More men than women are alcholics; alcoholism can cause trouble
with work; so men should be discriminated against, right?

   marie desjardins park