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From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: ..explicit text.. ; rape worse than murder?
Message-ID: <522@usl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 02:03:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: usl.522
Posted: Tue May 28 02:03:20 1985
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References: <560@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
Organization: University of (SW) Louisiana
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In article <560@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) writes:
>
>2 out of 2 women that I care about have found it pretty damn hard to
>recover from rape, too.  Me, I've never been raped.  I don't think I
>*really* know what it means.  But I know that if I'm ever threatened
>with rape I'll fight so hard they'll have to kill me before they can
>rape me.  'Cause when I see the ongoing, apparently irreparable damage
>those bastards inflict, I actually believe I'd rather be murdered than
>raped.  I disagree with you - I think rape is worse than murder.  And
>I'd like to see the bastards die - real slowly.  Whether we *should*
>kill 'em is up in the air.  But I'd sure like to.

Agreed that there are people who never "recover" from rape, but then there
are some who do survive it without serious damage (several women I know,
e.g.).  On the other hand, *nobody* survives murder.  

-- 
				    Joe Arceneaux

				    Lafayette, LA
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