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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:40:32 EST
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- From: "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- >>person is overly simplistic. Victims of sexual assault/harassment are
- >>not generally in the former category. The issues are power and availability,
- >>not attractiveness. (That is what is meant by 'rape is not about sex'.)
- >
- >Go back and read the sentence immediately after the one you quoted above.
- >I said flat out that I was referring to such things as catcalls in public
- >ONLY, and was not questioning that fact that rape and serious sexual
- >harrassment do exist in this world. I was never talking about assault and
- >rape at all. You misread the context of my argument.
-
- You were saying that attractive women are harassed by catcalls
- in public and unattractive women are not, then?
-
- I don't buy that one, either.
-
- There are good-natured catcalls, and there are mean-spirited
- catcalls, and the good-natured ones (generally) come from
- good-natured people, and the mean-spirited ones from mean-
- spirited people; the targets are *much* less relevant. The
- nasty ones (as a rule) involve "dirty words", outright
- insults, nasty suggestions, or even physical harassment.
-
- An unattractive woman is as likely as an attractive one to
- be the target of mean-spirited harassment.
-
- As a dear, sweet, little-old-lady, I do know the psychic lift
- that a good-natured compliment from a passing stranger can give.
- One does not need to be pretty or well-built to receive such.
- One does have to have the right frame of mind to recognize the
- intent...
-
- judith
-