Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: what's rape? Message-ID: <350@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 16:46:06 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.350 Posted: Fri Sep 28 16:46:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:38:01 EDT References: <1700@sun.uucp> Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 14 > Yes, the double standard exists, particularly in connotations > associated with descriptive terms. Can anyone seriously suggest that > "bachelor" has any of the negative connotations of the equivalent feminine > "slut"? These two equivalent terms carry the implied connotations that > promiscuity is ok for men, but not for women. They do not. And they're hardly equivalent. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois "Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight." Psalm 119:35