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- From: claire@chopin.udel.edu (Claire Elizab Barna)
- Subject: Re: F15 pant pant pant etc.
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- References: <1ekb0kINNar9@agate.berkeley.edu> <By2v8q.EBB@news.udel.edu> <1992Nov21.183428.19298@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:51:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.183428.19298@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >claire@chopin.udel.edu (Claire Elizab Barna) writes:
- >
- >>However, women basically live in fear of being attacked. We cannot or
- >>should not go out when its dark, unescorted. It is a sad state of affairs
- >>that we cannot be free like men. We carry mace and go to self defense
- >>classes in order to prevent rape. .....
- >
- >>Women are working at preventing rape by not going out alone
- >>when its dark, etc., but we are the victims and we are being punished! We
- >
- >You know, you seem to buy into a lot of the false stereotypes about rape.
- >It should be noted that most rapes are not committed by strangers
- >jumping out of dark corners....
- >
- >Follow-ups set.
- >
- >rini
-
- Exactly rini, only 28% of rapes are by strangers. The rest are by
- acquaintances. These rapes are called date rapes and the mostly likely
- victims are women between the ages of 15 and 25. They mostly occur on
- college campuses and are perpetrated by white, middle class, men who
- believe they have done nothing wrong.
- Only 27% of females date raped on college campuses believed they were
- actually raped. Therefore, both men and women subcribe to the notions
- that women are to blame for their being raped and that force is legitimate
- to obtain sex.
-
- -Claire.
-