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- From: "Amy Young Leith" <alyoung@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164240.9686@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <MUFFY.92Dec21154021@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec22.080745.3428@smds.com> <1992Dec22.172703.13719@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:42:34 -0500
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- >rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
- >
- >>For every woman that is the victim of violence there are three men that
- >>are the victims of violence. Since "we" see a special need for action
- >>against violence against women, but not against men, the natural conclusion
- >>is that "we" feel that violence against a woman is more than three times
- >>as serious as violence against a man.
- >>
- >>Do you not see that this sort of viewpoint is perceived as amounting to
- >>saying, "Women are more important, more human than men. Their hurts matter
- >>more. Women are entitled; men are not."
-
- Given the statistics, there is a lot of sexism going on here in this issue.
-
- Violence against women is seen as a "bigger evil" perhaps because
- women are still viewed as "unable" to protect themselves, or unfairly
- "outranked" by men. This is one possible explaination which is quite
- sexist.
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- The other could follow the logic that women do not victimize men as
- much as men victimize women, therefore the latter is a "larger"
- problem.
-
- amy
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