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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:39:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 14:39:10 1984
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> <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
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