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From: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Twist, twist, distort, distort
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 17:31:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 17:31:04 1985
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In article <221@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>> 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
>
>I'm willing to agree to that statement --- a lot of other people here
>on net.women refuse to acknowledge that this might be even a small factor.

[the "factor" under discussion here is "provocative clothing"]

I'm willing to concede that it *might* be a factor in *some*
rapes. (Who can ever really know what goes through a rapist's
mind?)  But the amount of discussion of this subject has put a
lot of emphasis on it, almost to the point of implying that if a
woman is raped it is her fault.  (Please note that I haven't
said that anyone else said, or even implied, such a thing!)  I
object to that emphasis, and I suspect that a lot of other
people will agree.



-- 

Gail Bayley Hanrahan
Calma Company, San Diego
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