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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The Dotson Case
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 18:46:44 EDT
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> The Dotson Case_____________________________________________________________
> 
> 	I'm outraged by the overwhelming media attention on this case.  One
> woman claims she lied about being raped, and we see it on the front pages now
> for over a month!  The Associated Press, in its neverending search for news that
> supports the _status_quo_ (read:  white patriarchy), diligently roots out ob-
> scure cases of alleged falsely-accused rape from various nooks and crannies to
> "show" us that the Dotson case isn't an "isolated incident."

> What should we do about it?  If everyone who subscribed to net.women would write
> to their local papers and complain about the distorted view of rape that is pre-
> sented in the converage of this case, we could make a difference.  How about it?

I thought that Newsweek had a very well thought-out, unbiased, undistorted
article (this was last week's issue, I believe; it was the cover story).  
They made exactly Jym's point:  that many people were using this isolated
incident as an example (to show that women lie about rape) and that rape
is one of the most underreported and underconvicted crimes.

	marie desjardins