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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:32:49 EST
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- From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 08:37:23 by Aaron L Dickey
- >Sometime I wonder if all the poor "sexually harrassed" women of this world
- >don't actually know how good they've got it.
-
- This is such bullshit. Your dichotomy of the amazingly attractive/unattractive
- person is overly simplistic. Victims of sexual assault/harassment are
- not generally in the former category. The issues are power and availability,
- not attractiveness. (That is what is meant by 'rape is not about sex'.)
-
- >The moral here is: Sexual harrassment works both ways, and I'm getting a
-
- It amuses me that men don't think that women know this. And it also amuses
- me that men feel very threatened whenever the discussion comes up. My
- comments to Steve (which I guess he won't read, because he set nomail)
- were specifically meant for him. Hmmm...maybe I'll spend dinner at Emily's
- staring at his crotch as an experiment....
-
- Karen
-