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Re: Rape Education Story #60



[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>  
> > > > "All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French,
> > > > Author, "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.
>  
> > "The quote above is from a novel by Marilyn French. Feminists often
> > say "it is only a quote from a fictional character. Yet this notion is
> > seen throughout feminist so called scholarship."
> 
> If that's true, then why not quote the scholars, instead of an 
> imaginary person?
> 
> Having never encountered the belief that "all men are rapists and 


You obviously missed the cases several years ago where feminist students
randomly selected male students' yearbook photos and then plastered their
faces all over campus under the title: "These men are potential rapists"

And if you say that such a thing is ok, then by the same logic, you,
Kate Orman, are a potential prostitute.



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