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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Male curfews
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 21:38:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 21:38:22 1985
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> 4 out of 5 homocide victims are women.
> Male murderers outnumber female murderers 16 to 1.
> 1 in 4 women is raped or sexually abused by the time she is 18 years old.
> In 70% of rapes, the rapist is known to the victim.
> More than 50% of rapes happen to a women in her own home, in her own bed.
> These are crimes of power and aggression.

> You seem to think it's a joke to impose a curfew on men, but there is an
> effective curfew put upon women, and I don't see you 'laughing' at
> that.

	I don't know which way you are argueing here.  If (1) more than 50%
of rapes occur in a woman's own home, and (2) in 70% of rapes, the victim and
rapist are acquainted, what good is a curfew going to do.  There is a law 
against murders, yet it does not stop murderers.  You really think that a
law against being outside is going to help?
	Women live longer, so should get reduced life insurance benefits.
Women get pregnant and take sick leave, and thus should be payed less than
men.  Men commit more crimes, thus should be locked up at night.  Don't all
three of these comments seem to fall into a similar vein?

jon

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
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