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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: Re: The reason for Rage
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.002519.8869@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:25:19 EST
- References: <l6jdivINNgh4@news.bbn.com> <SCG.92Jul22091626@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul23.020313.24943@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.020313.24943@ncar.ucar.edu>, sheehan@pagosa.scd.ucar.edu (Tim Sheehan) writes:
- >
- > > If it's the latter, maybe you should be
- > > concerned about lesbigay rights.
- > >
- >
- > Many women do not report rape because of the further degredation they would suffer
- > from the police, society, friends, coworkers, bosses, etc. The degradation a
- > male-male rape victim would suffer along those lines would probably be worse
- > because most members of society who would view a female rape victim as a slut
- > would likely view a male-male rape victim as a faggot-slut (what could be worse?).
- >
- > Personally, such ignorant attitudes apall(sp?) me. However, given that they are
- > so widespread, I have my doubts as to whether I would report it if I were raped
- > by another male. The experience would be hard enough without much of society to
- > help with the degradation.
-
- Right. But there are some people on this board who believe a man should report
- this even if a woman has the option not to. They ignored a prior post which
- questioned them on this dichotomy, but perhaps they will answer my most recent
- one.
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- DC
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