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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS, Twinkies and defense
Message-ID: <2657@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 12:58:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 12:58:59 1985
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Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York writes: 
> Not so long ago, a women somewhere in England used PMS as a defense
> for her murdering of a man.  She used it as a "temporary insanity"
> plea.  I KNOW IT IS ONLY ONE EXAMPLE, AND THAT IT WAS JUST LEGAL
> TRICKERY. PUT THE FLAME THROWER DOWN!
> 
> I know that the National Org. of [for --ed.comment] Women thought it was horrendous just 
> for the reason that a person like myself would bring it up.  Okay. 
> I brought it up.  Here is a case where *some* woman thought that her own 
> PMS was not a factor of "minor significance".  Let's give her a '10' on 
> the "PMS causes weirdness" scale.

This use of PMS as a defense ranks right up there with the guy who
killed Harvey Milk.  *He* claimed that he was not sane at that time
because of his blood sugar level fluctuations caused by his 
eating Twinkies.

Are we going to judge *all* women on PMS?  Are we going to make
Twinkies illegal?
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