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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.021510.5975@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov13.171824.22431@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Nov13.234022.12765@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1e92clINN9ei@saffron.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:15:10 GMT
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- maufd@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J S Graley) writes:
- >891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
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- >>I'm in agreement with Axel, I see advertising (esp. the ones which depict
- >>unreal women) as mind rape.
-
- >Mind Rape!?!?!?
- >'Rape' is the unwanted and forceful penetration of a woman.
-
- [50 plus lines of discussion of the term "rape"]
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- Perhaps you have forgotten that rape also means "despoil" or "pillage",
- as in "raping the land" ???
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- >Bloody annoying when strong words are used in innapropriate contexts isn't
- >it? Now multiply your annoyance by the seriousness of Rape, and you will see
- >what I mean.
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- Boy, I sure hope we don't get into a discussion of rape seed oil...
-
- rini
- - I don't really know what Trish meant by the word... my own reading was
- closer to the useage in "raping the land."
-