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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Rape of the Male - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 22:37:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 22:37:33 1984
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uicsl!wombat    Jan 25 15:30:00 1984

Instead of complaining about the "lack of support group and counciling"
available for men, go out and do something about it. Women didn't get
them magically overnight. They felt a strong need for them (I suppose,
I've never been in one) and started them. Until men decide that they
want to learn to be less aggressive, and want support groups to help
them with their special problems in this period of change, nothing
that women do to help create men's groups will do any good. Talk
to people at your local YM/WCA or whatever and start your own group.
The University Y here sponsors "Communiversity" courses, some of
which are essentially support groups for men. If you don't like the
way things are, work for what you DO want. Many women who were raped back
before there were women's groups weren't much better off than the
men you describe; unskilled women trapped with violent husbands had
no choice.
						Wombat
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