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From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape and the network
Message-ID: <425@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:46:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 19:46:15 1985
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Reply-To: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Organization: LASSP, Cornell University
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Keywords: statistics

In article <4160018@csd2.UUCP> dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) writes:
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>I just realized something. There have been several women on the network
>who have revealed that they were raped, and so there are probably quite
>a few more who were raped but didn't want to talk about it in this kind
>of a forum. It seems to me that this makes it pretty likely that there
>are several men on the network who have raped women. I don't know what
>the moral of this is. I was just reading net.women when this occured to
>me, disturbing me enough to write this.

Moreover, it is a statistical near certainty that a woman *you* know (that
is, a friend of yours) has been raped. This bothered me a lot when I first
learned about it and I think it still does. 

I don't knoww hwat the comparable statistics are for men (rapists).

Norman