Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-glivet!zurko From: zurko@glivet.DEC Newsgroups: net.women Subject: re: rape and violence Message-ID: <3722@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 10:05:34 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3722 Posted: Mon Sep 24 10:05:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:44:11 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 14 I am totally confused about how anyone can consider rape NOT a crime of violence. These people seem to think that if a woman doesn't actively resist, she will not experience any physical harm. That's absurd! Do you think women work like Disney time lapse flower photography; they just open wide at will??? If a women holds a gun to your head (assuming you're male) and says put out or die, are you SURE you'll be able to get it up? Even when not actively fighting off an attacker, fear, rage, shame, etc. combine to make the whole experience phyiscally painful and damaging for a woman, because those are just the emotions that make it more difficult for her to ALLOW the whole nightmare to proceed with as little pain as possible. Mary Ellen Zurko