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- From: misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <misdeva-171192154734@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov13.234022.12765@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1e92clINN9ei@saffron.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.021510.5975@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov17.151349.1993@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:47:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.151349.1993@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich
- Payne) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov17.021510.5975@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > >maufd@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J S Graley) writes:
- > >>891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- > >
- > >Perhaps you have forgotten that rape also means "despoil" or "pillage",
- > >as in "raping the land" ???
- > >
- > >>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.
- > >
- > >Boy, I sure hope we don't get into a discussion of rape seed oil...
-
- Sorry, rini. Tangent time.
-
- > I believe they are marketing it as 'canoli' oil, or somesuch. Who would
- > buy a product with such strong negative associations in the name? Since
- > neither the oil or the seed have anything to do with the act, I see no
- > ethical problems with changing it.
-
- Rape seed oil is one of the items included in our incipient tariff war with
- France, and they are referring to it as such.
-
- /- Devjani Mishra misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
- / / New Haven, CT diva@minerva.cs.yale.edu
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- / / / | / / / "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things
- /__/_ /_ |/ /__/_ personally. I cannot see any other honest way of
- taking them." - Marya Mannes
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