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From: zurko@glivet.DEC
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re: rape and violence
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 10:05:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 10:05:34 1984
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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