Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and streetwalking Message-ID: <206@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 18:42:37 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.206 Posted: Fri Dec 14 18:42:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:49:15 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 22 L.S. Chabot: >Obviously, geoff, you were raised as a boy, and an egoistic one at that [...] >...Dear me, it's better to cross the street than expect a little >common courtesy! I am a woman who is often out at night (no, I'm not a "streetwalker") and do not consider myself particularly fearsome (i.e. I'm not going to scare anyone off by looking tough). However, I don't expect every man on the street to cater to the fears you think I should have, either. If *I'm* unsure enough to want to be on the other side of the street that the man is on, then *I'll* do something about it. But it is not *his* responsibility to change the situation if *I'm* the one who stands to lose. There is a difference between courtesy and catering to every paranoid who might be out there. I think you expect the latter. Why? I'm not suggesting that women who are afraid of rape have problems; I'm just saying that if *you're* afraid, *you* have the responsibility to do something about it. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg