On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[deletia]
> Would people who truly understand how it hurts when something is trivialised
> do me a great favour and either discuss this on the list, or email me
> privately?
Hi Jenn,
On a similar train of thought, an intriguing idea popped up in a
semi-private online community I'm a member of. A meme that deserves to be
propagated...
It started with one person remembering reading a story years ago about a
series of murders in Israel. The victims were all women and the murderer
was determined to be a man. The heads of the government got together to
discuss what to do, and decided women should be subject to a curfew, for
their own safety. At this point Golda Meir spoke up and said "Why don't we
subject men to a curfew [and thereby keep the killer inside]?"
The next person posted about a similar discussion she and a friend had the
previous night.
The friend said several years ago there were a number of violent attacks
on women at the University of Minnesota. The police told women they
shouldn't go out after dark. And if they did, to travel either with a man,
or in groups of three or more.
And a women's group on campus wrote a letter to the editor saying that
women hadn't done anything wrong. Maybe *men* should be escorted in large
groups around campus...
...Just a little food for thought.
Andrew.
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