Date: 12/6/95
Subject: Read this, it is important
From: Ronald
I was disturbed with the list that was sent to our list. About half the statistics seemed to portray the male as the violent perpetrator of all things evil against women. This is just as sexist as the original list sent to us, it is just dressed up with statistics to sound impressive. I have statistics, too. I hope you read them for it matters.
> 5. Every 15 seconds a woman is battered in the U.S. Who is beating who?
"As in heterosexual relationships, violence is an issue in lesbians. More than a third of lesbians 22 to 52 years of age have experienced battery by a partner.” --The Western Journal of Medicine, May, 1995
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"One group that takes female violence seriously is the lesbian community, in which battery is a profoundly disturbing concern that is rarely discussed publicly... all the available evidence points to domestic violence in lesbian couples occurring "no more and no less often than in heterosexual couples."”
[....quote from The New Republic, August 1, 1994 continues for four paragraphs....]
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"Do you know that there's just as much battery between lesbian couples as there are between men and women?" Crossfire, July 4, 1994
> 61. In one-third of governments worldwide, there are no women in the
decision-making body of the country....
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