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From: throop@cs.utexas.edu (David Throop)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: what feminism has done FOR men
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Date: 29 Nov 90 21:00:29 GMT
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In Texas, last summer the Rebublican gubernatorial candidate joked
that rape is like the weather--if you can't do anything about it, just
lie back and enjoy it.  This raised a storm of controversy, and got
national attention.

Kathy Cornhell, president of Austin NOW, was quoted.  She pointed out
that this was not only an insult to women--that men are very often the
victims of rape.  In all of the coverage I saw of this remark (and
there was tons of it) she was the *only* person to point out that men
are also rape victims.

And you'll note that the language of the original comment was
gender-neutral.  But most of the rest of the commentary assumed that
rape was only a woman's issue.

So I'd say one thing that feminism has done for men here is raise
public awareness of men as crime victims.

David Throop