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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Changing Roles
Message-ID: <5487@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 15:37:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 15:37:58 1985
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Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
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Summary: 

In article <281@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>
>The majority of postings in this group tend to say such things
>as "Men will never understand what it feels like to be raped."

I would go so far as to say that a woman who hasn't been raped
will never understand what it feels like to be raped.  

>
>I agree with that, but many posters feel that this means that men's
>opinions on rape are not valid.  But these same posters will turn
>around and expect that the horror of rape can somehow be alleviated
>by this same men talking to their fellow men.  It just doesn't seem
>to be consisent with the attitudes displayed.
>
>In fact it seems to be (dare I say it? Sure!) hypocritical!

I agree with that assessment.  Does this mean that a person has to
be raped in order to have a valid opinion on the subject?  (Thanks
but given the choice, I'd rather not :-)  Then again, I wasn't :-[
given the choice.)

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram