Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf) Message-ID: <1174@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:39:10 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1174 Posted: Tue Mar 6 14:39:10 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:49:45 EST References: <973@inmet.UUCP> <7172@watmath.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 24 > <973@inmet.UUCP> > What then, do you have to say about (my previously mentioned to you) Susan > Brownmiller's book Against Our Will, which theorizes that the crime of rape > is a method by which men dominate women by subjecting them to constant fear? > > If a man rapes to dominate (rather than sexually satisfy), doesn't this lend > some credence to this theory? > > Beth Mazur > {ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur I say you've forgotten that women also rape to dominate, and for a better explication of the subject of rape as domination than I could do, see > From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) > Message-ID: <7172@watmath.UUCP> > Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 14:00:51 CST Brownmiller's thesis is seductive because it offers a simple answer to a complex problem. Not a solution, mind you, just an answer. Simple and wrong, because the problem *isn't* that simple. -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq