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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
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 03:26:47 1985
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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
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