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From: kevin@sun.uucp (Kevin Sheehan)
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Subject: MoRe: rape
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 21:48:34 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 21:48:34 1983
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	A thought from a friend of mine with experience:

	It isn't sex, it isn't violence, it isn't something a man could
ever understand.  You spend your whole life being dominated in one way
or another, and this is only the proof you are powerless, and that the
system of justice enforces your powerlessness.  Few men will ever know
what it is like to be completely humiliated, spread open for the
taking, and have NO power over it. Not even revenge.
	The innuendo, the whispers of "she didn't fight back...", the
pain and memories, my attitude towards men, aren't the worst part.  It
is being a suspect in a crime where I was the victim.  If I am shot, I
have a wound.  When I was raped, no-one saw the damage really done.
I am helpless.


		Truly proud of my gender :-)
			kevin sheehan


PS.
	Raped by three men in San Jose after classes at SJS.  Jury
concluded she brought it on due to the presence of nearby redlight
district.  Two of the men have since been convicted of other rapes
within 2 months.  The bruises and her arm healed.