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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 05:55:14 EST
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inmet!mazur    Jan  2 16:11:00 1984


> I would rather go through several rapes that left me unscarred but
> frightened, than spend much of my life in prison.

Boy, are you going to get flamed for that statement.  Do you really have
so little conception of what rape does to a woman?  I think that many 
women who have been raped are in an "emotional" prison - which "prison" is
worse is probably not worth debating.  

Haven't you ever been robbed or mugged?  Have you ever heard of people saying
that it wasn't the loss, it was the sense of violation?  Rape is bad news,
and I feel sorry (and a little scared) that some people just find it a
*frightening* act.

                                  Also bewildered,

                                  Beth Mazur
                                  {harpo,ima,esquire}!inmet!mazur