Letters to the Editor
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Mad Cow Joke
Mad Cow Disease wasn't discovered and named until the late 20th century, long after PMS was known and named. So, the joke was not only crude, misogynistic and unfunny, it was also inaccurate. Now that's funny. And if this woman was as smart and bookish as she claims (you know, her great literary reputation and all) she might have pointed that out and shut the clod up right there and then. Or she could have left. Or asked him if he makes jokes like that because he has a small penis. And she only seems to be offended by things that she feels affect her personally. The PMS joke only bothers her, she assures us, because she has witnessed her poor daughter suffering from cramps (which, by the way, isn't really a part of PMS but something different called dysmenorrhea, but why would such a brilliant librarian know that?) The anti-semitic attitude that she doesn't speak out against upsets her because HER people died in concentration camps. She gives women and librarians a bad name...