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Subject: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 23:57:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 23:57:18 1984
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inmet!mazur    Feb 17 00:28:00 1984

CYNICAL MODE ON ***>

Here is a simple test for both men and women that will let you know which is
your greatest risk: rape by a woman, or being struck by lightning.

  1.  Do you golf in thunderstorms?
  2.  Is your house on top of the highest point of land for miles?
  3.  Do you leave your TV (and $500 antenna) plugged in during storms?
  4.  Do you practice your baton in electrical fields?
  
  5.  Do you frequently date women on roller derby teams?
  6.  Does your date remind you of Patti Smith?
  7.  Do you know women who look like the East German track team?
  8.  Do you have trouble bench-pressing your own weight?

If you have more yes answers to questions 1-4 than you do to questions
5-8, wear rubber-bottomed shoes.  If the reverse is true, get help; 
you are a prime target for rape by women.

CYNICAL MODE HALF ON ***>

OK, it is possible for a woman to rape a man, and a woman to rape a
woman.  It's probably even happened 10 or 20 times.

What I'd like to know is, how many of you park your cars in brightly lit
lots because you are afraid a woman is going to grab you and rape you?
How many of you don't open your doors when you are alone because you are
afraid a woman will force her way in and rape you?  How many times have
you crossed as street because you saw a shady-looking woman walking on
your side of the street?  Are you ever worried that that nice girl you
just met might expect sex, and force you if you not willing?

CYNICAL MODE OFF ***>

I agree that women can rape men and women, and that that is as much as
a crime as is rape by men.  I still think that rape is primarily, mainly,
almost always a crime by men.  Rape is not a "people" crime, it is a
crime committed mostly by men, and occasionally by a violent, aggressive
woman.

Now all men do not commit rape, and all men do not want to commit rape.
I am not saying this to "promote hatred of men".  But if you want to know
why we, out of frustration, say "why don't you men out there stop
raping us", it's probably because we're tired of being told that rape
is a crime by people against people, when it's mostly rape of women by
men.
 
Go ahead, send flames.  I borrowed someone's asbestos gloves...
Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur