Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: ..explicit text.. ; rape worse than murder? Message-ID: <302@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 20:22:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpa.302 Posted: Mon Jun 10 20:22:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 05:25:02 EDT References: <560@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <522@usl.UUCP> <530@utai.UUCP>, <2047@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <632@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 32 > From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold), Message-ID: <2047@sdcrdcf.UUCP>: > >So now we're back to rape being a "fate worse than death." Phooey! > > > >Surely a rape victim who felt that way would be able to manage to get > >the rapist to be "kindly" and kill himer. Or do a Victorian number > >and kill herself. The fact that the rape victim chooses to live is > >pretty good evidence that she at least prefers life after rape. > > > >Or perhaps we should set up a new form of euthanasia proceeding. Force > >the poor victim to live long enough to determine if the rapist can be > >prosecuted. Then after the judge's ruling, kill the victim! > >For her own good!? > > > >What incredibly warped reasoning. > >[...] > >--Lee Gold > > It is indeed warped reasoning. Please note that you're the only > one who proposed it. > > -- > > --JB Life is just a bowl. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Just because it doesnot make front page headlines does not mean that there are not many women who do just that. They may not go out and blow themselves away but the end result is just as fatal jeanette l. zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie