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From: mazur@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 06:07:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 06:07:37 1984
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inmet!mazur    Feb 17 17:14:00 1984


***** inmet:net.women / randvax!edhall /  8:22 pm  Feb 13, 1984
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     Sorry, John; I appologize, and confess to what was a bit of
     emotionalism on my own part.
     [stuff removed]

     I still suspect that a man probably has considerably greater chance
     of being raped by another man than by a woman.  And that the chance
     of the latter is real but miniscule compared to the risk women face
     from men.  But you are quite correct that the possibility of a woman
     sexually assaulting a man is barely even considered, and would
     probably show the same under-reporting.  And I am aware that it does
     happen.

     We have a violent society, and sexual violence is just a part of it.
     And violence is not just a male behavior.  But I feel that male
     violence against women to be such an important part of the problem
     that it deserves special attention.  Also, it illustrates some of
     the darker side of traditional male/female roles, and indeed looms
     so large that no path to sexual equality can ignore it.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall
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This reproduced from Ed's note (without permission, sorry Ed) because it
much more clearly states what I, im my emotional state of last night, tried
to say in the parent note.

For all those of you who may have flamed before this appeared, accept this
as an apology for going overboard (you too John!).

Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur