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Re: HumorFrom: Laurie Lovely (llovely@med.unc.edu)Thu Aug 7 11:42:46 1997
At Wed, 06 Aug 1997, Yvonne Fried wrote: > >This is not very nice, I thought this went out with male chauvinism >in the 60's and 70's. I don't find this humorous in the least. I >certainly didn't laugh when I read it. It will be nice when women >are taking care of women and don't have to listen to hostility and >degrading comments passing as humor. > >-- >Yvonne Fried, M.D., FACOG > I didn't think this was degrading or conveyed hostility. I thought it was funny. And yes, I do recognize that PMS is a serious condition that can disrupt women's lives and requires caring treatment. But humor is humor, and practice of medicine is practice of medicine. How many jokes are out there about people getting shot (remember the koala joke? "eats shoots and leaves") or people with various deformities/ medical conditions ("the guy with one leg)? None of those situations, if real, would be funny. And, a real woman wreaking havoc because of her PMS isn't funny either. But the joke was. Also, how many women are guilty of laughing at jokes about men's inability to ask for/follow directions, or sensitivity about their penis sizes?
-- Laurie Lovely, MD RE fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill
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