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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Re RAPE, etc.../ "provocative" dress
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 23:49:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 23:49:49 1985
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> I don't believe the provocative dress bull**** for a minute.  Having

Let me preface my remarks by saying that in my opinion, "feminists"
as a group,  contain a substantially higher percentage of educated
jerks than the general population.  I did not always hold this opinion,
but after hearing "feminists" argue that erotic literature is an
ipso facto violation of women's rights and that the federal government
should compute and dictate to employers the correct wage for every
occupation... Arghh!
     Anyway, I try not to let the more irritating members of 
the movement make me unreceptive to good points when they are made.  
Several years ago, I heard on the radio a very cogent parody of a rape trial
put on by the Center Against Sexual Assault.  A man was assaulted 
and robbed of the money he was carrying. The defense lawyer kept 
questioning the victim as to what kind of clothes he was wearing
("A suit. I see. Would you say it was an EXPENSIVE suit?") and whether
he had ever GIVEN money away, say to charity. (The point being that by 
wearing an expensive suit he was "asking for it" and that if he were in 
the habit of giving money away, maybe he was even a willing participant 
in the robbery.)  It was quite startling and enlightening.
     
BTW, if you want to flame me, you'll have to do it by mail.  We don't
usually get this newsgroup.
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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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