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- From: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
- Subject: Re: Feminist=Equality? Errrr.... Nope.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.191022.10939@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1993Jan23.170052.17526@news.uit.no> <1jsu77INNlh4@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan24.034047.1718@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.034047.1718@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >In article <1jsu77INNlh4@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Just this guy) writes:
- >>
- >
- >Why is the opposite of 'blame the victim', -the accused must be guilty-?
- >Would a rational woman make false accusations of rape?
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- Let's put it this way. If a woman makes a false charge, and it is PROVEN
- false, the worst that happens is her target has evaded her. Like the woman
- in the Nordstrom's case, no charges are filed, and her photo is withheld
- from the press, so even her embarressment at being found out is kept to
- a limit.
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- Now if she makes a false charge and it goes undetected, she stands to
- gain publicity, revenge against a lover who left her, legal advantage
- over her ex-husband in order to extract huge settlements and to deny
- visitiation, book deals, the sabotage of a political opponent (anyone here
- remember the Tawana Brawley case?) etc. etc. etc.
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- With everything to gain and nothing to lose, and with the feminist press
- cheering them on, OF COURSE women will make false rape charges whenever they
- can, rational or otherwise. Remember what Susan Brownmiller used to exhort,
- to seize power for women "By Any Means Necessary"? A false rape charge,
- so heinous that it's mere accusation brands the accused forever even if
- found not guilty, is that means.
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- Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
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