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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence (and the dreaded testosterone 'poisoning')
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:54:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 11:54:43 1985
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> Sunny writes:
> > I feel myself to be unusually qualified to answer this issue:  Speaking
> > from experience, I find that being under the influence of male hormones
> > tends to result in some percentage loss of ability to focus on the work
> > at hand, 100 percent of the time.  Being under the influence of female
> > hormones tends to result in some less percentage loss of ability to
> > focus on the work at hand, some percentage of the time.
> >
> >   To be perfectly honest, there is a lot of truth in the concept
> > of "testosterone poisoning".  It totally clouds the mind.

 To which Jeff Sontag responds:
> 
>   What makes you think that your experience of 'mind clouding' was due
> to testosterone rather than to your unhappiness with your sex?  To say that
> testosterone is a mind-clouding poison is the same as saying that men are
> biologically inferior to women.  And saying that *any* group is biologically
> inferior to another is usually frowned on in this group.
>      Frankly, I find this 'Being-a-woman-is-so-much-superior-to-being-a-man'
> variety of claptrap just as offensive as the opposite variety of claptrap.
> --

 To which I respond:

Very well said, Jeff. Sunny had a personal experience that made her
take - what was for her - a very natural step. Now, to extrapolate
that to even a larger percentage of people then herself is uncalled
for. 

I have a sex drive that I concider perfectly comfortable for me. When
I am working on the job, at a hobby, or whatever, my mind does not
wander on to sex. If a woman that I concider attractive enters my
environment while I am working, that may sidetrack my thoughts, but
- if the woman has appeared for work related reasons - my thoughts
wander back to work relatively quickly. 

...life is funny, people are different...

 
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