Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: Re RAPE, etc... (rape and society) Message-ID: <416@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 09:32:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sbcs.416 Posted: Sat Aug 10 09:32:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:12:32 EDT References: <739@udenva.UUCP> <540@hou2g.UUCP> <3014@hplabsb.UUCP> <6443@ucla-cs.ARPA> <1698@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 27 Sophie Quigley: > By the way, my opinion (and that of quite a few feminists) is that rape > is not a personal problem of a few individuals with a distorted world > view, but a deep societal problem ... I agree. I remember having read, quite a while ago, of an experiment where a group of rats was subjected to severe overcrowding over a longish stretch of time. These conditions led to behaviour not normally seen in rats, e.g. rape, infanticide, homosexuality (no flames, please - I'm talking about rats only!) etc. (I don't have the reference offhand, but can try to dig it up if people are interested.) > ... of the inequality between the sexes. I assume this refers to the prevalent view of women being "the weaker sex". Rather reluctantly, I have to agree with you. > Society will have to be cured if we want the individuals cured. Yup. -- Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax} !sbcs!debray arpa: debray%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa CSNet: debray@sbcs.csnet