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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!kieran
- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Message-ID: <BzqtJt.GwG@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <WORDS-L%92122311450309@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:57:29 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
-
- >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'.)
-
- Go back and read the sentence immediately after the one you quoted above.
- I said flat out that I was referring to such things as catcalls in public
- ONLY, and was not questioning that fact that rape and serious sexual
- harrassment do exist in this world. I was never talking about assault and
- rape at all. You misread the context of my argument.
-
- >>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.
-
- A lot of women don't. Obviously a lot of men don't understand the first
- thing about what sexual harrassment is, so there's no way 100% of all
- women automatically know that it goes both ways. If they did, there'd be
- a lot more discussion about how to solve the problem of sexual harrassment
- and a lot fewer pure demands on the part of "women's groups."
-
- >And it also amuses me that men feel very threatened whenever the
- >discussion comes up.
-
- I don't feel threatened; I just think there's more than one side to the
- story. That's all.
-
- >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
-
- Go ahead and do it; just please report the results back here.
-
- --Aaron
-
-