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From: smann@ihu1g.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: prisons - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 12:58:12 EST
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>About that comment on 60 minutes from the lawyer: what REALLY
>made me burn was his reasoning. The woman was apparently dealing
>with the crime, and because she hadn't become a nervous wreck the
>rape was considered "mild".  What's she supposed to do, act crazy
>until the trial?

And yet there are others, including those who have posted to
this newsgroup, who claim that if a woman does show emotional
after-effects from the crime, there is something wrong with 
her.  Just another case of women being damned if they do, and
damned if they don't.

	Sherry Mann
	ihu1g!smann