Monday, August 19, 2002

Interesting thoughts on the sadly forgotten rewards of the feminist movement: Heads held high, Brooks and Marris looked into the camera and spoke of their struggle to survive with an absence of shame that would have been unimaginable for rape victims a generation ago...That frankness is a victory for all women, but especially for older feminists, now in their 50s and 60s, who set out three decades ago to change the culture's entrenched "blame-the-victim" approach to rape...But the most important change brought about by the women's movement is abandonment of the antediluvian notion that rape is "a fate worse than death." Nothing is worse than death, as these two courageous teenagers understood when they joined forces to save their lives.

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