Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!srm From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: self-defense (Extremities) Message-ID: <2194@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 03:26:47 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2194 Posted: Fri Jan 11 03:26:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 03:01:12 EST References:<219@calmasd.UUCP> Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 21 Summary: In article <219@calmasd.UUCP> gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) writes: > >I agree with Lauri -- if someone attacks me, I will defend >myself to whatever degree necessary. Recently my wife and I were in London, where we saw the play Extremities. Helen Mirren played the key role -- a role that Farah Fawcett played on Broadway. The play is billed as being about an attempted rape, and without spoiling it for those of you who haven't seen it, I can say that the play examines what happens to a woman who successfully defends herself. We both thought it was really good. We had considered it as one of many things we might do in London, but what cinched it was a relatively violent encounter with a purse-snatcher in Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve (actually early New Year's Day). Despite the fact that we recovered the purse intact, my wife had a really hard time dealing with her feelings about having her purse taken from her in a vigorous struggle with a young black man. Seeing Extremities really helped. -- Richard Mateosian {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA