"And the people suffering are mainly middle-aged women. Middle-aged women are easy to ignore. Especially stupid middle-aged women who are worried about being overweight and obviously faking their symptoms in order to get drugs which are popularly believed to induce weight loss. It's clearly their hormones.
Or they're trying to scrounge up welfare benefits. Or they're trying to claim insurance. Even though there's nothing wrong with them and you've checked so carefully for everything that it could possibly be."
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I might sound more rational. But I would not be able to explain the apparent contempt in which these terrible diseases seem to be widely held. I seek the truth. Political correctness often hinders that search.
I can't resist saying at this point that some of my best friends are middle-aged women.
Low, I'd imagine. What does that matter?
An excellent point. It may be that we can alleviate these syndromes with amphetamine. But then we need to explain how that knowledge got forgotten. It is not as if doctors are reluctant to hand out ill-understood prescription drugs to the sufferers.
As far as tranquillizers go, they might shut the sufferers up, but I'm not sure that's what I mean by alleviate.
"And the people suffering are mainly middle-aged women. Middle-aged women are easy to ignore. Especially stupid middle-aged women who are worried about being overweight and obviously faking their symptoms in order to get drugs which are popularly believed to induce weight loss. It's clearly their hormones. Or they're trying to scrounge up welfare benefits. Or they're trying to claim insurance. Even though there's nothing wrong with them and you've checked so carefully for everything that it could possibly be."
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