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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: How to Protect Women
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.193432.18672@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <bob1.725059087@cos> <1992Dec23.164510.4429@netcom.com> <168C6A033.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:34:32 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- In article <168C6A033.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Diane writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.164510.4429@netcom.com>
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>Maybe I am uninformed in this, but are not your chances of drowning in a
- >>swimming pool many times greater than those of becoming a stalking victim?
- >>I mean, even in abusive relationships, this is extremely rare, to the
- >>best of my knowledge.
- >>
- >>So while the possibility may be real, it does not reasonably look like
- >>a prime consideration, even in abusive relationships.
- >>
- >>Rich
- >
- >I sincerely hope that you are never in an abusive relationship that
- >turns into a stalking situation. It is *much* more common than most
- >people realize.
-
- How much more common?
-
- > I was in such a situation, and it is small comfort
- >than it is considered so rare as to warrant little consideration in
- >the minds of the general public.
-
- Agreed, but you cleanly missed the point that I was making.
-
- >People who are in an abusive situation have usually become very aware
- >of what their abuser can be expected to do in given situation. If a person
- >could reasonably expect, based on past experience, that his/her abuser
- >would stalk, I would have to respect that evaluation.
-
- Which male poster was just called an accident just waiting to happen
- (or something similar) for stating several abusive relationships that
- he had had the misfortune to have? If she has been in several abusive
- ralationships, would she not be as much to blame as, who was that Mr.
- Dunphy? Or is there some politically correct method for placing the
- blame?
-
- BTW, would your respect for her evaluation extend to jail before there
- is cause, based soley upon said evaluation?
-
- Every person is an individual, until you stereotype them.
-
- > It is extremely annoying
- >to me that so many "haven't been there; didn't do that" people can have such
- >definite ideas about what other people should do or think in extraordinarily
- >stressful and dangerous circumstances.
-
- This looks kinda like what they call "putting words in others mouths", or
- the text equivalant. Since nothing I have said is even remotely connected
- to the above statement, I must respectfully ask, what the hell are you
- talking about?
-
- >Diane
-
-
- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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