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- From: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape ? (was Re: Mysogynist Bullshit)
- Message-ID: <11809@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:52:44 GMT
- References: <C12MrJ.BHw@cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Jan19.003819.20956@news.cs.indiana.edu> <11784@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <1993Jan22.180334.25273@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- Reply-To: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
- Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them
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- In article <1993Jan22.180334.25273@news.cs.indiana.edu> alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (amy lynn young-leith) writes:
- > I write:
- >>Why does this fact make the intent harder to fish out?
- >>This is a serious question. I want to know your reasoning.
- >
- >These laws were made by a male dominated system. Yet, these laws have
- >been twisted so that it's very easy for a woman to use them unfairly
- >against a man. Now why would men make laws that were going to be used
- >agsinst them unfairly?
-
- Ah, I see what your assumption is now. You are taking a view of "men" as a
- social class.
-
- What happens in reality is that rich, powerful men make laws that can be
- used unfairly against middle-class and poor men. It helps keep them middle-
- class and poor which makes them less of a threat.
-
- -EMP
-