features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) (08/05/85)
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? -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features