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From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: eliminating rape
Message-ID: <7347@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 11:13:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 11:13:56 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Mar-84 07:40:31 EST
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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	>Where my mother grew up (Libya) a modestly (no American woman
	>dresses modestly) dressed Muslim woman did not have to worry
	>about being raped.  If a woman were being attacked on the street,
	>all the men would grab their weapons and hack the attacker to
	>pieces.  In any case, a woman would spend almost all her time in
	>the house and usually would go out on the street accompanied by
	>her father or brothers.  If women are willing to pay the price,
	>rape can easily be eliminated.

Conversely, if men dressed in snowsuits with lots of zippers and buckles and
all women carried weapons to help defend other women and the men stayed
home most of the time, that would probably also reduce the incidence of
rape. (I'll bet my bottom dollar that even in countries where a woman
is defended on the street she is vulnerable to her uncles, brothers,
father, etc.) So, if men were willing to pay such a price, rape could
easily be reduced.
In fact, if men were locked in cages in the basement it could probably be
eliminated. However, I don't think it would be a very good life for
men OR women.

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