Subject: Re: Something to think about.
From: dan@cubsps.bio.columbia.edu (Dan Zabetakis)
Date: 1997/04/28
Message-Id: <5k0vmo$3hc$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: talk.rape,alt.feminism


In article <862183483.31542@dejanews.com>, <stertourssa@earthlink.net> wrote:
>In article <5jun0h$hid@nr1.toronto.istar.net>,
>
>A woman should be able to walk down the street NAKED and not have to
>worry about rape. A woman should be able to simply say, "no" and have


We can put a little real life in this, since you bring it it. Some years ago some women in New York challenged the state indecency law on 14th amendment grounds. [The law made it illegal for women but not for men to go around in public without a shirt on.] The courts found, indeed, that the law violated the 14th, which provides for equal protection under the law.
But! The NYC Trasit Authority still retained a law that it was illegal for women to go topless in the subway. Incidently, the NYC subway is not considered a particularly safe area for women, or anyone really. A group of women, for reasons of thier own, decided to challenged the law by violating it and going to trial. However, the TA police decided ahead
of time not to bust them (pun). So they rode the subway topless. It was not reported that they were raped because they went out in public undressed.

DanZ