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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Where's the falafel?)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Martillo's Rape Cure
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 22:21:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 22:21:44 1984
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| Martillo's Rape Cure |

	I can't believe that somebody would actually suggest this in
net.women!  Don't you realize that the whole problem with rape is that
it effectively puts women at the mercy of men?  By suggesting that
women stay in unless accompanied by male relatives, you're suggesting
that women not act as freely, as assertively, as *human* as men.
	The ideal that men are better than women, that they are the
*real* humans while women are a subspecies, that a woman shouldn't be
able to walk around like a man shall; that ideal that man is the master
of woman is the underlying cause for rape!
	I know there are different cultures at work here; that is, there
are a different ideal of woman in Libyan culture than there is in Ameri-
can culture.  In case you aren't aware, it hasn't always been this way.
The Woman's Movement has delved deep into this culture's ideals of woman
and has found that these ideals are contrary to human nature.  Our cul-
ture is much improved because of this; and someday, Libya's culture will
feel it too.

	I enjoyed the "alternate solution" (lock all the men up); how
does Martillo feel about it?
		<_Jym_>

| Jym Dyer | DEC Documentation Production Software | Nashua, New Hampshire |
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