Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!desjardins From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and other assorted stuff Message-ID: <402@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 23:37:27 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.402 Posted: Thu Jun 27 23:37:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:27:11 EDT References: <191@cuuxa.UUCP> <2919@sdcc3.UUCP> <2301@sun.uucp> <257@kontron.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 23 > > Gee, Sunny, I think you need to keep up with rapidly improving technology. > Samuel Colt perfected a high-tech device just last century which makes a > 100 pound weakling (regardless of sex) the equal of a 200 pound ogre. It's > called a firearm. Go ahead! Improve the species! Scatter whatever it is > that a rapist keeps in his brain cavity all over the sidewalk! > > "God made men --- Col. Colt made them equal." > I would think that by the time a woman realized she was about to be raped the 200 pound ogre would have already grabbed her. I sincerely doubt he would give his victim even enough time to try to run if he could help it. And I would be scared shitless he would just grab the gun out of my purse and threaten me with it. (I know, I'm a spineless wimp.) And as many people have said before, I'm not sure that most people are really capable of shooting someone, with no hesitation (and she who hesitates is lost). I don't think I am (yep, a real jellyfish). I don't know what the answer is for people like me. A self-defense class would certainly be a good first step. marie