Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French,
> Author, "The Women's Room"

> "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little
> sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the
> handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet
> in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to
> shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his
> shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter." -- Marilyn French, in
> "The Women's Room"

"The Women's Room" is a fictional novel. These comments are made by 
fictional characters severely damaged by their experiences of rape 
and injustice. To attribute them to French herself is extremely 
misleading and unfair. Read the novel to discover a variety of
feminist viewpoints, and even a heroic male character who saves a
woman from
rape.

Yours,
- Kate Orman