Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: using public anger to avoid attacks/harrassment Message-ID: <1767@wateng.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 18:03:18 EST Article-I.D.: wateng.1767 Posted: Fri Dec 14 18:03:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:31:26 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 >Anger in an actual attack can be helpful, but using anger to ward off >potential attacks is really just a variant of the "stay indoors" >solution for rape. It advises you to build walls that reduce your contact >with a dangerous world. I await better solutions. Yeah. You can wait. Meanwhile we women have to walk down the street or through train stations or into subways. We've got to cope with the leers and the brushings-against and the dirty and suggestive comments, and worse. I won't go into what happens in our own offices and homes. Too many of us have learned the hard way that the cold, deadening stare or the anger work better than timidity or friendliness. And it IS boring and it DOES cut us off from the world. And we HATE it. However, we need something that works, right NOW -- in our day to day lives, while we await the 'better solutions'. --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM ...!{ihnp4|clyde|decvax}!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan