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- From: dude@losers.hacktic.nl (Dude)
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: rape
- Message-ID: <012093120718dude@losers.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 00:34:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.103609.1797@maths.tcd.ie>
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- Organisation: losers inc.
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- In article <1993Jan19.103609.1797@maths.tcd.ie>, aisling brown writes:
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- AB> Why is it that men don't seem to understand how scared women are about
- AB> rapist being around?
- AB>
- AB> I go out with a few guys and all of them laugh whenever any of the girls
- AB> are affraid. At present in the area where I live there is a rapist going
- AB> around it is unsafe for any girl to be going around on their own. Last
- AB> week, a 15 year old girl was raped outside a disco by a 16 and 16 year
- AB> old guys. Now you can see how unsafe we feel?
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- Not all men feel like this, trust me. Most of the men who laugh about rape,
- don't know what rape is. They haven't seen how it can change your personality,
- your body, your life. Personally, I always think it's very sad that when I
- pass a girl late at night in a parkinglot or something, and she's looking
- scared. Men and women should be able to walk the streets at night without
- fear, but unfortunately that's still an utopia.
-
- BTW: I don't mean to add more fear, but you shouldn't be careful just when
- there is a rapist going araound, you should always be careful.
- I remember a story about a rapist, who entered his victims' bedroom through
- an open window. After he was caught, somebody said 'I'm glad he was caught,
- now I can sleep with my window open again'. What if there's another one ?
- A former girlfriend of mine was also scared, and went to a self-defence course.
- When I asked her if she thought if it would help, she said: "I think so, and
- even if it doesn't, it's better then walking around and doing nothing !".
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- Dude
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