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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:49:24 GMT
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- >>(About judging other cultures by 20th-century standards.)
-
- > 1.5 page rant on culture judging deleted. Those who are going to
- > email flame me willbe bounced unlessthey go back and read the thread.
-
- >>Also, in particular, I note that people of different cultures
- >>may not have had the scientific facts available to them that are
- >>available today;
-
- > Fair. However, everyone in the US has plenty of access
- > to scientific material if not training, and yet you
- > see morons pushing creationism in Louisiana.
-
- I was talking about past cultures, and tribal cultures in which
- people have no access to formal education.
-
- > My point is, "Social justice" is redundant. Justice is
- > the word people are looking for when they talk about
- > "social justice".
-
- >>> Please define.
- >>
- >>I can't. I am not even sure that one rigid definition would always
- >>be appropriate.
-
- > How do these differe from what you mean when you say "social
- > justice"?
-
- I don't believe that good can be given a rigid definition, that
- works in *all* circumstances (see a previous posting).
-
- >>> I have a very *clear* concept of right and wrong. It is not
- >>> muddled by goofy social ideals. For me, right and wrong are
- >>> black and right--there can be no "almost right" because that
- >>> almost certainly implies that there were ulterior motives,
- >>> and I consider motivation a prime factor in determining
- >>> right and wrong.
- >>
- >>If you do consider motivation a prime factor, then please, use
- >>respectful language to sincere posters. And *assume* people are
- >>sincere until they give you *individual* evidence otherwise.
-
- > I always do.
-
- Was the "rant" above meant to apply to my writings, or to yours?
-
- >>Some people are raped in situations which they should have been
- >>able to know was dangerous;
-
- > Typical date rape.
-
- >>others in situations that they could
- >>not imagine were dangerous.
-
- > Typical out of the shadow rape.
-
- ...And some date rapes, too.
-
- > Which kind do people make more noise about?
-
- Is "noise" about rape wrong, if it in any way leads to the punishment
- of rapists, or the prevention of rape?
-
- >>In any case, the "penalty" of being raped
- >>is much higher now than it was a generation ago, because of AIDS.
-
- > Not all rape victims are exposed to AIDS.
-
- But all of them have to go through six months of fearing it.
-
- >>And I don't think this "penalty" is appropriate, for, for example,
- >>a 14-year-old girl (a true example). Much too much punishment for their crime!
-
- > Agreed. I find rape repulsive. One of the things I find
- > equally repulsive is the way feminists are so unwilling to admit
- > that women need to be self-responsible. Clothing, manner,
- > where you go, alcohol and drugs, appearance--all of these
- > things ARE factors in rape.
-
- No feminist is denying this.
-
- > Feminists can claim that old women
- > and unattractive women get raped all they want--they make up
- > such an insignificant part of the total number of rapes that you
- > can easily explain those away as fetishism or severe mental
- > illness.
-
- "Out of the shadow" rapists don't care that much about the physical
- appearance of their victims (see "What Cops Know," a collection of
- interviews with Chicago police by Connie Fletcher).
-
- Note that "typical" out-of-the-shadow rapists have some severe
- psychological problems. In particular, read the section in Fletcher's
- book on the "power reassurance" rapist, the most common type.
-
- Lenore Levine
-