An open letter to "The Doctors"
Dear Doctors,
I came home today and turned on my television to find that your delightful program had started. You announced that after the commercials, you would be discussing a product that would make things easier for women during their "time of the month" (your words). Whatever might this product be, I wondered, and decided to stay tuned.
Imagine my surprise and relief when you displayed a calendar that contained several "premenstrual syndrome" symptoms and facial expressions. It was explained that this calendar could be used to communicate with a husband about your physical feelings on any given day of the month and what you would like him to do in response to these feelings.
What a miraculous product! Finally, after we women have spent hundreds of years striving to be perceived as intellectual equals to men, we have a product that helps us to demonstrate that our thoughts and feelings are caused entirely by our hormones. As a bonus, both you and the makers of this product have shown a true understanding of our complete inability to communicate verbally with our partners regarding these imagined "thoughts" and "feelings".
Now, finally, I can communicate with my husband (the person who shares my home and with whom I am raising a child) that I am "tired" and want him to "rub my back". As a bonus, where he might once have interpreted my tiredness as a need for him to help more with our son and various other things, now he can be reassured that this "tiredness" is purely a result of my hormones.
Thank you so much for your expert medical guidance. I will be sure to make note of your supporters (the products that are advertised while your show is on) so that I can purchase all their products and encourage others to do the same.
I came home today and turned on my television to find that your delightful program had started. You announced that after the commercials, you would be discussing a product that would make things easier for women during their "time of the month" (your words). Whatever might this product be, I wondered, and decided to stay tuned.
Imagine my surprise and relief when you displayed a calendar that contained several "premenstrual syndrome" symptoms and facial expressions. It was explained that this calendar could be used to communicate with a husband about your physical feelings on any given day of the month and what you would like him to do in response to these feelings.
What a miraculous product! Finally, after we women have spent hundreds of years striving to be perceived as intellectual equals to men, we have a product that helps us to demonstrate that our thoughts and feelings are caused entirely by our hormones. As a bonus, both you and the makers of this product have shown a true understanding of our complete inability to communicate verbally with our partners regarding these imagined "thoughts" and "feelings".
Now, finally, I can communicate with my husband (the person who shares my home and with whom I am raising a child) that I am "tired" and want him to "rub my back". As a bonus, where he might once have interpreted my tiredness as a need for him to help more with our son and various other things, now he can be reassured that this "tiredness" is purely a result of my hormones.
Thank you so much for your expert medical guidance. I will be sure to make note of your supporters (the products that are advertised while your show is on) so that I can purchase all their products and encourage others to do the same.