sexist comments

Here's a response along the near universal female response
that FRA's hurt real rape victims. Slandering the entire
male student body is no more a problem than innocent men
in jail for rape. No matter what, women are the only potential
victims, of anything and everything.

Say Kate, do you know who the main victim of war is?

Rich

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From: Janis Maria C. C. Cortese ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Re: sexist comments
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Date: 1993-07-15 17:17:00 PST

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris
Polsenberg) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Butler)  writes:
>
>
>>>CB.think about this for a second, You go out and take an ad out for
this
>>>.person. You have just decided that this person is guilty and you
are
>>>.administering the punishment (ie public humiliation at the least,
much
>>much more at worst including loss of firends, loss of job, loss of
family).
>>
>>This actually happened more or less.  I forget the university, but a
>>group of female students decided to pick out photos of male 
>>students randomly from a yearbook and post them around the school 
>>under the title "Potential Rapists." 
>
>Just so you know what really happened...
>
>I guess you're talking about us (University of Maryland), but a group
of
>female art students pulled random names from the student directory,
and
>posted fliers all over the campus with "These Men Are Potential
Rapists"
>under their names.  There were 30 or 40 versions of these, and I know
>several male students who were named.  Needless to say, they were
(and are
>still) furious about the whole incident.  While I agree that women
need
>to be more knowledgable about date rape and be aware that it exists,
there
>is no need to identify random individuals as potential rapists.  The 
>University is investigating...

While I agree that this wasn't the best way to draw attention to the
problem, I wonder if anyone got this outraged at the increase in rapes
that precipitated the project in the first place.

Regards,
Janis the n.p.h

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