Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf) Message-ID: <5888@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 22:52:49 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5888 Posted: Sun Feb 26 22:52:49 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 00:20:55 EST Lines: 21 #R:inmet:10900047:uicsl:16400046:000:1070 uicsl!wombat Feb 26 13:42:00 1984 It looks to me like Beth Mazur is more interested in looking at the aspect of rape that is more likely to affect her personally (i.e., rape of women by men) and John Quarterman would prefer to include the larger problem, which would be more likely to affect him (rape of people by people). If Mazur wants to limit her attention to one (and by far the larger) part of the problem, that's her business. She may not be personally interested in solving the problems of men in the way she is interested in solving the problem that she herself may be attacked by some crazy, violent man. If Quarterman wants something done about people attacking other people, he should do something. Complaining that women aren't taking an interest in his (mostly male) part of the problem isn't going to help anything. His calling this a "people" problem is just a way of including himself as a potential (but very unlikely) victim; maybe he feels left out? Women have felt left out of a whole lot of things. Nobody promised life would be fair. Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat