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Subject: Re: Re RAPE, etc.../ "provocative" dress
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 18:46:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 18:46:29 1985
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> 
> Again, I know of no evidence to support this theory, but it
> seems the point is that perhaps, GIVEN A CHOICE, many rapists
> would "prefer" to attack the more "provacatively" dressed
> woman.
>					 		Scott Berry


You should have stopped by just saying "I know of no evidence to 
support this theory."

I don't believe the provocative dress bull**** for a minute.  Having
been attacked while I was violently ill (which had me running in&out
of the bathroom), looking quite pale, disheveled, and in baggy clothing,
it is clear to me that that subhuman male did not care a twit for how
provocatively I was dressed.  

In another incident (at work, I might add) where I BEGGED a colleague
to keep his hands off, he replied that it was my fault because of the
way I dressed.  This guy was really turned on by loose-fitting blue jeans
and oversized (opaque) shirts.  More to the point, he was just turned on
by any female.

As has been pointed out many many many times in this group, most rapes
and other attacks against women are made by men who know their victims.
For the lowlife described above, they just assumed that familiarity was
a license.  It took a police restraint to keep the first guy away.  The
second guy never did get through to his hormones that he needed to ask
first.  (I even clobbered this guy one time after he grabbed what wasn't
his, being sure my demands to be left alone were not going to be respected.)

So, please guys-- show some respect!!!  It makes me ill to see so many
men try to defend those who deliberately harm others.  I cannot for the
life of me understand putting down obviously hurt women by defending,
excusing, or even "understanding" the actions of assailants.  It is a
collosal insult.

						Patricia Collins

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