Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles Subject: Re: Rape: The Unresolved Trauma Message-ID: <695@ames.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:14:30 EST Article-I.D.: ames.695 Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:14:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 05:41:47 EST References: <1855@sun.uucp> <2182@randvax.UUCP> <1863@sun.uucp> Distribution: net Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 39 Xref: watmath net.women:3783 net.singles:4860 [] From Sunny Kirsten (sun!sunny): >I happen to believe that the bad side of men, when carried to the extreme, is >responsible for some very severe physical abuse in the world, such as rape. >Women may be catty and bitchy, but they seldom wreak the physical havoc men do. >They don't run out and build bombs capable of destryoing the earth 1000 times >over the way men do in their civilized version of "my thingy is bigger than >yours", "I'm the dominant buck, and I get to run the herd". Humans are NOT so >different from the other animals when it comes to mating instincts. .... >I'm honest to God scared shitless that >by the year 2000, there won't be any life on this planet, because some male >is going to "push the button" and nuke it all back to the stone age. The same >force is the one involved in rape. Male dominance. The eternal male battle >to be THE dominant male of the herd who gets to pass on his precious genes. >I don't hate men. I hate the excessive dominance exhibited by some men in >some circumstances. Actually, if you substituted "people" for all references to males in these quotes, there'd be no problem. I guess it's comforting for you to believe that problems like war are exclusively due to males, but it's not very realistic. Male-dominated society has limited women's opportunities to be great villains as well as great heroes, but all the evidence shows that women are as capable of both good and evil as men are. I'd feel no more secure with Mrs. Thatcher's finger on the Big Red Button than Mr. Reagan's. I do not suggest that you hate men. I do suggest that you seem more comfortable believing that the world's problems are entirely the fault of Somebody Else. Unfortunately, comfort is one thing, accuracy another. To (slightly) paraphrase Walt Kelly, "We have met the enemy, and she is us." - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry SOURCE: ST7891