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From: tracy@hcrvx1.UUCP (Tracy Tims)
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Subject: Re: Rape: TUT:  Walking Alone at Night
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Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 14:55:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 14:55:19 1984
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		Tracy (me):
		If you teach yourself how to not look like a victim and how to
		look confident you may discover similar results without putting
		the world off. 

	L S Chabot:
	Yes, all you senior citizens out there, and you people with physical
	handicaps, and probably all you women, too (or at least many of you):
	stop looking like victims!  Like, try wearing a gorilla suit or
	something.  An attractive one, so you don't put the world off
	(horrors! appear unattractive out of doors!). 

Tracy (me again):

	Are you claiming that an angry looking handicapped person is less
likely to be attacked than a confident looking one?  I am not sure I believe
it.  This (by the way) is the crux of the argument.

	Why do you "argue" by non sequitur and ridicule so frequently?  Why are
you suggesting a gorilla suit?  How is that relevant?  Why are you suggesting
(vaguely) that I find it unacceptable for people to appear unattractive out of
doors?  I seem to recall that my posting implied that I didn't like people
being hostile.  I said nothing about attractiveness.  Why do you invent
pointless and insulting ideas and put them in the mouths of other people?

	I don't like thoughtless hostility and I don't like yours.  You don't
even know me, and you are treating me unfairly.  The fact that you may have
axes to grind and have felt injustice does not give you license to do this.
(And I can hear you saying:  "So what!  *I* get treated unfairly."  Sigh.)

        Tracy Tims (Practicing Peoplist)    {linus,allegra,decvax}!watmath!...
   Human Computing Resources Corporation                     {ihnp4,utzoo}!...
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