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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Why not walk them home?
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 14:11:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 14:11:47 1985
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> Once a woman *asked me* to walk her from the local Safeway to an apartment
> about 3-4 blocks away. Now, I've been told that I often have a rather
> threatening air about me, but it was probably reduced considerably in this
> case by the fact that my arms were full of groceries. 
> 
> I suppose some people would suggest she wanted more than that, but I was
> there, not them, and I very much doubt it.
> 
> 					Jeff Winslow

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Along this line an interesting story:

Last nite (tuesday 6/4/85) a late nite news item on TV caught my thoughts.

A woman had had a fight with her room mate (sex unnamed) and had gone

out for a walk (alone about 11:00 PM) after walking about her own home
neighborhood for a while 2 men came up to her and withthe aid of a gun
forced her to accompany them. 
As they approached a house where two men where working in their yard
on a motorcyle she quickly walked up to them and told them that the
two men with her were going to hurt her and asked for help.

One of the assailants promptly hit one of the men and the other man
was shot when he tried to help out. In the mean time the first man
managed to call the police but the 2 attacking men got away.
( I am not too sure on that as I could not get to the TV in time
to turn up the sound)

It would seem that we women are really getting into a hard place
under a rock here.

We can ask for help, as anyone male or female should be able to do,
or we can try to be our own defense.
What then should be our reaction if the people we apply for help to 
get blown away in the process and of course we know where we are if we
get blasted ourselves.

The man who was shot left behind a wife and family.

QUESTION:

knowing even this little bit how many of you men reading this 
upon finding yourself in a like situation would step to the aid
of the strange woman?

I'm not taking a poll I'm just curious since there have been a goodly
number of men saying - in effect - I can be trusted to protect you
if you only let me know that is what you want or need at the moment.
But if it came down to the chance to leave your loved ones unprotected
in the long run would you be as willing to come to the aid of a 
relative stranger?

Does the horror of rape and assault really have enough weight in your
mind to allow you to walk into a situation kknowing that there is some
chance (admitedly small) that you might never walk out of it?

Think - hard - because there is every chance in the world that if a woman
you agree to escort is attacked in your company you will be hurt just because
you are there even if you make no move to aid her at all!!

jeanette l. zobjeck
ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie


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