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- From: svanegmo@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen Van Egmond)
- Subject: Re: NEWS: Feminists Integrate Men-Only Rape Talk
- Message-ID: <C0p718.2sG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Keywords: press rape
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1inb36$lc8@agate.berkeley.edu> <C0nL7I.MHv@cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Jan10.205555.27499@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:27:07 GMT
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- Hold it. Isn't there just the _slightest_ difference between an all-male sports
- team and an all-male discussion on the effects of sexual assault?
-
- Much of what was said at the all-male meeting seemed to be wrong; disrupting
- that particular meeting was probably justified in light of what was said in
- previous years. That doesn't constitute an excuse to barge into an all-male
- forum simply on the basis that it's an all-male forum.
-
- From my experience in such matters, there are some aspects of a sexual assault
- that male survivors are only comfortable discussing with other men. That
- clearly isn't the case for ALL men. I think that Campus NOW shouldn't have been
- yelling for the extermination of all male-only rape discussion groups; are far
- more sensitive position would have been to call for a discussion group that
- presents more accurate information.
-