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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: \"Why not send the men home?\"
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 19:29:07 EDT
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What's this curfew everyone is complaining about?  I haven't seen any signs
around saying, "WOMEN MUST BE INDOORS FROM DUSK TO DAWN".  Women are free to
do as they please, go where they want, etc.  The "curfew" you are talking about
is an unwritten law, actually, which says that you don't go anywhere where you
might get hurt.  That applies to everyone, not just women.

You think men can go everywhere they want?  Tell that to a black man who wants 
to go for a walk in South Boston, or a white man who wants to walk across 110th
Street in Harlem.  There are some places *I* don't even go, because I know it
is unsafe to go there.

If you want to go places, learn how to protect yourselves.  I know lots of wo-
men who take self defense classes.  Men, too.  You don't need to be afraid to
go out.  You can also use the Goetzian method of self defense (just make sure
you have your gun registered, and know what to do with it).  But the bottom
line is, it's tough all over, and men may not have to fear rape, but they can
still get knifed, etc.

If you want to impose legislation on the men who commit crimes against women,
write to your state government and have them lock these guys up and throw away
the key, but PLEASE don't go imposing any curfews on ME, or any man I know who
would never do such a thing to anybody.  The innocent should not have to pay
for the crimes of the guilty, even if they belong to the same sex as the guil-
ty.
-- 
She's on fire, 'cause dancin' takes her higher than anything else she knows!

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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