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- From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:21:22 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- References: <1992Dec23.074553.20000@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Mike Coleman writes
- >lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann) writes:
- >|But when men commit violence against other men, it's often in connection with
- >|some other crime---a gang turf war, a drug deal gone wrong, etc. When
- >|violence is committed against a woman, it can be a random attack, but over
- >|half the time it's by an SO or by her ex-SO.
- >Speaking as a man, I can tell you that that makes me feel much safer.
- >
- >Isn't violence just intrinsically bad, or does gender really matter?
-
- Of course it's intrinsically bad. But if you're a man, you're not
- likely to be killed by your SO in your own home as it were. (Again,
- I'm not saying men are never killed by their SOs in their home, just
- that, statistically, it happens more often to WOMEN than to MEN.)
-
- This is part of the problem. Yes, you can come up with counter-examples.
- But, for every Reginald Dennehy, there are four Melissa Beniots.
-
- * In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak *
- * because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I *
- * didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade *
- * unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... *
- *Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.*
- * Rev. Martin Niemoeller [Why to March on Washington in April] *
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