Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!metcalf From: metcalf@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Rape of the Male - (nf) Message-ID: <808@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 06:06:23 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.808 Posted: Sat Jan 28 06:06:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 03:29:08 EST Lines: 15 #R:houxu:-29900:inmet:10900035:000:570 inmet!metcalf Jan 27 12:11:00 1984 It seems to me that two of the things which Larry thinks make rape more tragic for a man than for a women (i.e. that he is 'subject to rape and dominace' which 'leads directly to subservience' and that he is forced to take a role that he has been taught belongs to the women') describes that situation which women are expected to live with. In other words, its only tragic because the raped man is being treated like a woman. How humiliating! How sad! (And how nice it would be if women were not expected to be subservient and subject to domination.) -wcm