Some say there is nothing funny about PMS. We say that if we don't laugh, we'll cry. We have written Raging Hormones because PMS - premenstrual syndrome - has wreaked havoc with our health, our work, our mental faculties, and our relationships, not to mention our sense of fashion.
Up to ninety percent of all women experience some degree of premenstrual syndrome. PMS is not new. It is not the "Female Disorder of the Month." Ever since there have been women, there has been PMS, and it has played a major role in promoting the destructive image of women as fickle, erratic, moody, unpredictable, and unreliable.
Some will say that a humorous book about PMS will set women back a hundred years. We say that no one can ever move forward without confronting and controlling the obstacles that threaten to impede her progress.
And, we say that sometimes the best way to start taking something seriously is with a sense of humor. We may mock the syndrome and its symptoms, but never the women who struggle with them.
