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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Rape is violence, not sex"
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 21:30:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 21:30:21 1985
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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian), Message-ID: <2788@nsc.UUCP>:
>>[me]
>>Sarah stated the she thinks "we need to focus on the
>>fact that rape is violence and *NOT* sex".  I must confess I'm curious as
>>to *why* we need to *focus* on that here. 
>
>Because that realization allows us to cut through rationalizations like:
>
>  1. I couldn't help myself...my hormone levels are too high.
>  2. She was asking for it walking around in that sexy sweatshirt.
>  3. I'm sick...I need treatment, not punishment.
>  4. I had a right to do it, since {she's my wife | she led me on}.
>-- 
>Richard Mateosian

I was overusing '*'.  Let me re-ask using the emphasis that was in my mind:

  Why do we need to *focus* on that *HERE*?

I haven't seen any one of those rationalizations posted to this newsgroup.
An occasional reminder that rape is pure violence is always welcome, but
posting it over and over to this newsgroup seems to be a reaction to a
problem I haven't seen (much of) *HERE* (although the problem unfortunately
surrounds us everywhere else) (Spiro whoever is a notable exception to this).
We seem to be talking to people in other parts of our worlds, and not to
each other.  Unless I'm missing something, which is why I asked the question
in the first place.  If we *are* talking to each other, I'm not hearing the
meaning behind the words, and I'd like someone to clarify it for me.

-- 

--JB                                          Life is just a bowl.