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From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Anti-rape tactics - a revision
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:01:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 19:01:16 1985
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>But that cogency depends on the "peer group" being the way it's
>purported; macho, exploitive (redundant?), unsympathetic...  It
>strikes me that anyone who recognizes such characteristics among their
>"friends" has the wrong friends.
>
>I'll revise my suggestion:  Find a peer group that DOESN'T manifest
>such attitudes.  Go to parties among real friends, not men who'll rape
>you once liquor overcomes their inhibitions.  [Consider the joys of
>not getting plastered at parties, nor going to parties where getting
>shitfaced is the business of the evening.]  If you can't find a set of
>friends, colleagues, whatever, whom you'll trust not to assault you
>there's something very wrong.
>
>Once you've done that, try my original suggestion.  If you're involved
>with a sexist crowd, you have a difficult readjustment coming, not
>least of which is rebuilding your self-image (consciousness-raising).
>

Sounds great! Where have these people been hiding?
(I'm serious, by the way -- aside from *some* of my colleagues (I'm a
grad student in phsyics), I haven't met any people like this since leaving
college.
 
Norman