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From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian)
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Subject: Re: "provocative" clothing
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 02:35:11 EDT
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	It still seems that men(and probably lots of women) confuse
the act of rape with something resembling sex. You have to get away
from this mental block. It just isn't so. When you consider the
number of just plain women who are raped(women who are minding their
own business, women who are dressed in unassuming clothes, older
women who are being far from provocative) you suddenly realize
that rapes are not commited because the woman was "asking for it."
The only thing the women did to ask for it in most cases of rape
is be born a women. That is all. 
	Throwing in all this stuff about provocative clothes only
confuses the issue. It throws the responsibility of rape back at
the woman. "Well, look at the way she was dressed. Anyone would
want to jump her bones!" Unfortunately, the fact that you may want
to jump her bones has absolutely nothing to do with rape. It is
an act of domination and that is all. 

Sharon Badian	ihnp4!mtgzz!seb