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that way the men (and women) they encounter will know whats up--work, family, dry-cleaning clerk etc..
similar to the red-cross...red :| mad face
even a small (not too small) pin similar to the "breast-cancer" ribbon would suffice.
Alexandre Dumas: Camille (La Dame Aux Camelias)
http://www.digital....ook/lookup?num=1608
(Famous literary precedent for menstrual signs.) "For twenty-five days of the month the camelias were white, and for five they were red; no one ever knew the reason of this change of colour, which I mention though I cannot explain it; it was noticed both by her friends and by the habitue's of the theatres to which she most often went."
Of course Dumas's heroine has an actual reason to signal - she works as a prostitute. [jutta, Mar 02 2001]
General information on PMS
http://www.womenshe...com/pms/index.shtml
[ping, Mar 02 2001]
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yes! just like it BUT??!! |
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Ah yes, I knew there was a bodily function we hadn't made a big deal of on this site recently. |
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thanks...i'm a woman and believe me it is just as much a taboo for one women to assume a woman is PMSing as much as when a man does it.
this way seems to solve a lot of problems *before* they happen. |
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why not mandatory? given the option, most women would say no. this way it would hopefully eliminate the taboos associated with it. |
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That is the best Idea I have heard in years. Think about it if your boss happens to be a woman, and you want to ask for some time off or a raise, but you see the arm band you know instantly to keep your pie hole shut and get back to work. Reginagirl = genius |
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jutta that quote is lame, if you have an opinion give quit talking in riddles...oh excuse me are you wearing your arm band today?? My bad. |
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So, what made you decide on that particular user name? |
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This may also serve as a reminder to the woman herself that her attitude and perspective may be influenced by hormones rather than clear thought...thus preventing any unwarranted outbursts. Perhaps women could voluntarily wear some sort of scarf or pin that serves as a reminder only to themselves rather than annoucing to the world their current "status". |
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"..her attitude and perspective may be influenced by hormones" - as opposed to men, those strongholds of logic and predictability, who, uninfluenced by hormones subsist on reason, truth, and beauty alone? |
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The attitudes and emotions of *all* of us are influenced by hormones. That's what hormones are there for. They influence stuff. How we think and feel is a mix in all people, both genders, all the time. |
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25-40% of women are said to be suffering from PMS symptoms that "make life difficult" for them. This is happening mostly before menstruation, not during.
If they want to be left alone, they should have a way of saying so, just like anyone else who is having a bad day. But tagging menstruating women would get mostly the wrong people at mostly the wrong time, and would give sexists (of both genders) yet another excuse to treat women based on their sex, rather than as individuals. |
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See what I mean? This could have been avoided with a pin. |
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<SEXIST HUMOR OFF>
Sorry I couldn't resist. |
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Oops! Wrong sort of curse. Sorry! Just carry on with whatever you were doing and pretend I was never here. |
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And I have a pretty good idea where you can stick that pin, too. |
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I can see the woman who 'murdered' her husband for not taking the garbage out, sitting in the dock in court. |
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"And on this particular night he should have known better than to "just lay half-pissed on the couch wantching Friday Night Football", to use your words, Mrs Jones?", asked the prosecutor. |
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"Damned right he should. The lazy no-count bastard could clearly see I was wearing my 'Red Days' pin that night. He got what was comin' to him whether I liked it or not", said the decidedly portly Mrs Jones. |
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"Well, that settles that, then", intoned the judge,"case dismissed." |
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