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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 22:52:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 26 22:52:49 1984
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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
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