Politics of Rape Science (was Re: After the Fall)

[Joanna Sheldon]

At 17:34 11-07-00 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Make rape disappear from the world through our political practice,
>> >and then "scientific" arguments for a "biological basis" for rape
>> >would then disappear as well.
>>
>>Not in the world I live in.
>>
>>cheers,
>>Joanna
>
>Perhaps in your world scientists are still trying to come up with a 
>"biological basis" for inadvisability of miscegenation & advisability 
>of prohibition against it.
>
>Yoshie
> 

I disagree with your use of the word "disappear".  I mean, simply, that
even if we get rid of rape there will always be people arguing that when it
existed among us there were biological reasons for its existence.  You
disagree?

Joanna

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