The Hidden Disease

18/1/02

The Hidden Disease

Most women that you know suffer from PMS.

Strange that.

Because you rarely hear about it.

Except when it suits.

In fact, 95% of women suffer from PMS (i.e. 95% of ALL women between 16 and 55!) "felt that their home life and relationships with family and friends had been adversely affected by their symptoms."

But, of course, you will not hear much from the mainstream media or from the law courts about PMS in connection with, say, domestic violence (which these days, remember, also includes such things as shouting). And remember that millions of women suffer from PMS.

Every month!

The effects of PMS, and the extent to which it invades the female population, is one of the biggest and most successfully kept secrets since the one concerning the whereabouts of Lord Lucan.

Anyway, here is a politically-correct article about PMS (i.e. one that excludes any mention of the associated increased propensity for violence) by Dr E Lichten. And, if you read it, you will discover that ...

"... physical symptoms include headache, migraine, fluid retention, fatigue, constipation, painful joints, backache, abdominal cramping, heart palpitations and weight gain. Emotional and behavioral changes may include anxiety, depression, irritability, panic attacks, tension, lack of co-ordination, decreased work or social performance and altered libido."

14/10/02

UK Men don't talk about their problems, or attempt to resolve their issues, or reflect on their motivations, because we don't have issues or problems that we feel we need to deal with. Martin Love - 5 min

Hmm.

In my view, men "don't talk about their problems" with their female partners for four main reasons.

1. There is no problem - as per Martin Love's article.

2. Talking about their problems with their female partners usually makes matters worse because their partners do not like the sound of them. Indeed, women do not like men who have problems. Having problems is not manly.

3. Within 25 nanoseconds of men starting to talk about their problems the discussion is too often quickly hijacked by their women partners who would much prefer to talk about their own!

4. Discussing one's problems seriously with someone whose views are often not logical, consistent or understandable, particularly when they fluctuate from day to hour because of their undue reliance on an emotional input, is a pointless and deeply aggravating enterprise.

Putting the last point another way: It is commonly accepted that women's thinking is much more affected by an emotional input than is that of men. But given that emotions fluctuate - and often for the most unpredictable, trivial or inscrutable of reasons - how can one possibly gain much value from discussions with someone whose responses will vary significantly depending on what they happen to be feeling at any give hour?

And, in my view, this is one of the main communication barriers that men face when discussing problems with their women partners. It is a waste of time.

Women cannot have it both ways.

Either their thinking is significantly affected by their emotional responses to the issues - which they claim is the case - or it isn't!

If their thinking is coloured by emotions, then their attitudes to the issues will change unpredictably depending on what emotional contribution happens to be present at the time; which makes any serious discussion with them somewhat pointless.

If their thinking is not coloured by emotions, then their claim that they have more to contribute than men in any discussion because of their extra 'emotional input' is, quite clearly, false.

25/07/04

Pre-Menstrual Syndrome The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reports that up to 40 percent of menstruating women experience some symptoms of PMS. link now defunct

Up to 40%?

Hokum!

Any experienced man of the world - such as my good self - of course! - can tell you that it must be at least 80% - if not close to 100% of women whose brains misfire even more inappropriately than normal during 'the period' prior to 'the period'.

The low figure of 40% published by this medical body probably arises because women themselves (especially the younger ones) do not realise that their various mood swings come from within as opposed to from without i.e. they blame others for their ropy feelings and refuse to believe that their hormones have anything to do with it.

In other words, when they fill in their various medical questionnaires about PMS they say, "No, Sir. Not me!"

An estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of these women have a severe form of PMS called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), characterized by depression, anxiety, tension and PERSISTENT ANGER or irritability.

To repeat: PERSISTENT ANGER

(That's about 3 million American women.)

And these are the women who often claim that they are being 'abused' when, in fact, those around them are simply trying to cope with their horrible natures.

These are also the women who often claim that they have been sexually assaulted or harassed. In one moment their sexual juices are flowing like the Niagara Falls and they are as sweet as pie, lusting for love and affection, and the next moment they are infused with anger over the most ridiculously trivial event or over the memory of it.

Female chimpanzees have been found to bear grudges against other chimps for as long as 30 years. Male chimps, however, seem to forget in a very short space of time. Carl Sagan

And some of these raging and deluded women are politicians, judges, police officers and surgeons!

Women like these should never be in positions with much power over others - whether at home or at work.

Unsurprisingly, however, many of these women also end up as single mothers - for obvious reasons - and the lives of their children are often a living hell from which there is absolutely no escape. These children are forced 24/7 to live under the control of a permanently aggressive, unstable, unpredictable woman who has them completely at their mercy.

Day in. Day out.

And the family court judges then have the nerve to say that this is in 'the best interests of the child'!

Absolutely unbelievable - until, of course, one recalls that most family court judges are not there to serve families, they are there to serve their feminist overlords.

(Those who don't serve their feminist overlords don't get the jobs.)

Needless to say, these emotionally-unstable aggressive women are also the women most likely to deny fathers access to their children.

And the feminist judges let them have their way.

I have actually come across children whose lives are 24/7 under the control of such women - and I cannot tell you how much it pains me to see this.

I simply cannot bear to think about what these children have to endure - day in, day out - for years on end.

It really makes my stomach churn.

(Also see AH's piece entitled Some People Have Personality Disorders.)

Raging PMS For two weeks every month Sue Scarlett used to become what she calls a "raging monster".

(To be filed in the 'Women Are Never Violent' section.)