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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Twist, twist, distort, distort
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 00:14:52 EDT
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> > >       *Provocative clothing is a major factor in rape.
> > 
> > Nobody, as far as I know has been saying that provocative clothing is
> > a *major* factor in rape.  Some people have been suggesting that it
> > may be a factor.  The word "major" here appears to be entirely the
> > product of your own imagination.  It is an exaggeration of what people
> > have actually been saying.  So, for that matter, is the word "is"
> > when it replaces "may be".
> 
> Ok, so if it is not that major a factor, why is it discussed so intensely
> here?   why don't we just agree that it can be a factor and leave it at
> that?  
> -- 
> Sophie Quigley
> {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie

      First, to what degree does provocative clothing lead to rape?
      Second, Why should women allow the possibility of rape to determine
their fashions for them?

				Chris Andersen