Re: CHALLENGE FOR T.R. REGULARS

Baba Yaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ellen Mercer) wrote, in talk.rape:
> 
> >I'm saying that it
> >may be possible for women to accept the value of a man's comments at
> >the same level of that of another woman, but she will never so readily
> >allow a man into her inner, emotional circle as she will a woman. 
> 
> Are you proposing this as a general - or as expressed, universal -
> rule of human behaviour?  Or as a characteristic of (presumed) rape
> victims?
> 
Is this really controversial? I'm surprised if so. It is universal in
the sense that it seems to be true in every culture with which I've
been exposed, but not (to head off that favored strawman) universal in
the sense that 'every last woman on earth does it'. Of course there
are exceptions. And again, there is exactly nothing wrong with it.
Please note also the use of modifying terms like "so readily" rather
than just "never". Every one of us can cite many exceptions to any of
these kinds of statements. Those exceptions don't make the rule
untrue.