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- From: eisrael@klingon.East.Sun.COM (Elias Israel - SunSelect Engineering)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape ? (was Re: Mysogynist
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:08:17 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <1993Jan21.153837.15773@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article 15773@aston.ac.uk, evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
- >Elias Israel - SunSelect Engineering (eisrael@klingon.East.Sun.COM) wrote:
- >: What this amounts to is
- >: the ability to retroactively rescind consent.
- >
- >Is this ability desirable?
- >(after all this is a great way to avoid responsibility for making mistakes.
- >which after all prevents people from actually LEARNING not to make the
- >same mistake in future)
-
- To some people, I think the idea that a woman could retroactively rescind consent
- is desirable. I can think of various reasons for it, ranging from the desperately
- cynical ("Men should keep their grubby hands offa women and anything we can
- do to discourage them is a good idea.") to the well-meaning but misguided
- ("Encouraging women to speak out will enhance the awareness of `rape culture'.")
- to the purely practical ("Sometimes women don't say `no' when they mean `no' and
- we should encourage them to say so if they feel that way. After all, better
- late than never.")
-
- The problem as I see it is that this is another attempt to "promote equality"
- that amounts to little more than "an eye for an eye." After all, you don't fix
- a flat tire by letter the air out of its mates.
-
- Elias Israel
- eisrael@east.sun.com
-
-