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ak955@chebucto.ns.ca (Barbara Amero) wrote:

>Michelle, I thought of you last Saturday when I was out on the city
>streets alone late at night and was hassled by 3 men hanging out on the
>street. An unpleasant, unwanted, abusive experience. The kind you never
>experience. 

In the absence of witnesses, I suggest that all readers consider 
the source of this alleged incident. Several research papers suggest
the frequency of fabricated *formal complaints* of rape to police
may constitute as many as 1/3 of all such allegations. 

If the frequency of false allegations is so high in such a serious
situation, one might imagine that, in the absence of witnesses,
and with such a clear ideological and psychological stake in
her postings, a writer might fabricate a story of "being hassled
on the street."

Kate Roiphe describes such a fabrication in her classic book on 
gender feminist hysteria.

A likely scenario...

Woman walks [possibly inebriated and dissheveled, who could say] down
the street, sees three men standing, waiting for the bus. Seeing the
men, she mutters, loud enough to be heard "Gawdhepme, its 3 ugly pigs
standing there waiting to hassle an innocent female. Wish I had 
a protector with me."

Men: "Hey, check that woman out. Is she talking to us. Man, she looks
ANNNNNGRRRRY."

She: "Gawdhepme, you fellas need hep. Have you read Neil Malamuth? But
your rape proclivities are right through the ceiling right now. Well
just remember, my ex is a well known professor."

Men: "Hey, lady, we're just waiting here for a bus. Didn't say
anything to you. Just what is your problem. From what asylum did
you escape?"

She: "Gawdhepme, I just heard one of those guys say he wanted to
take me to an island and rape me." [LOUDLY] So, you want to take
me to an island and rape me. You're just like 31.7% of all men,
according to Neil Malamuth and Blye Frank. Well, that makes
7.85 rapists I've encountered this hour."

Men: [puzzled] "Where do you think she got this bit about rape. I
said asylum, not island...I said escape, not rape."


She: "Gonna go back to my pooter and report you guys."

Men: "Now, *that* is one strange lady."