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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Martillo's Rape Cure - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 01:09:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 01:09:50 1984
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parsec!holt    Apr  3 11:18:00 1984

from ihuxt!martillo:

"The rapist's desire to victimize is more important than the woman's self
image."

	What does this statement mean?  I shudder to think...

more from the same source:

"For all of you who do not read Arabic and who are woefully ignorant of
Islamic society,  the big issue which educated Muslim women are addressing
is female circumcision  which is the removal or mutilation of the
clitoris.  The issues which American feminists discuss seem quite trivial
by comparison."

	The reason that "female circumcision" is not a "big issue" in the
United States is that this barbaric practice is not performed in this 
country.  Besides, "female circumcision" is a misnomer.  Female castration
is a more accurate description.  It seems grossly unfair to me that a 
society castrates its women and doesn't castrate its men.  No wonder the
"educated Muyslim women" are concerned with this issue.

				Dave Holt
				Convex Computer Corp.
				{allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!holt