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Re: Let's Just All Get Along....
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:12:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mary Shafer
Subject: Re: Let's Just All Get Along....
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Andrew Morris wrote:
> I manage 3 listservs, and periodically members get testy (gee does
> that word come from Testosterone?).
Probably not, but if it does, remember that women produce testosterone
and other androsterols, too, albeit in smaller amounts than do men. I'm
a staunch feminist and I refuse to lay all the blame for such situations
on men. Testiness is not restricted to those with Y chromosomes and any
claim for male-female equality must acknowledge that women can be just
as jerky as men (although we usually call it by different names, but the
result is the same).
We demand that our testiness be recognized equally! Women can be jerks,
too! No free passes for the Y-chromosome deficient!
I point this out because I know that I have sent a testy message or two
to Skunk-Works and I don't want anyone to think that I'm going to hide
behind the "testosterone made me do it" excuse. Of course, the "UFO
messages made me do it" and the "aliens are here made me do it" excuses
are still viable, but I'm not Little Goody Two-Shoes and can only
promise to try not to go ballistic unnecessarily. As proof, I apologize
for the testy remark about SR-71 rudders not being vertical stabilizers
and my sneering remark that anyone who could call the rudders
stabilizers was uninformed and admit that the remark was poorly phrased.
I think it's the weather, personally, and the onset of fall, heralding
winter.
Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com
"Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end...."
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Created: Sat Sep 11 02:40:09 EDT 1999