A8 - Friday, September 28, 1984 - North Shore News ust-Tilled monsters hat’s this?! Eighteen minutes gone by and nobody raped yet? In the normal course of events (if there is such a thing these days) your man Doug would never have asked such a thing, he being a rather shy bloke. But there are limits to reticence, and the query was inspired by a letter in the North Shore News from the pen of one Toby Smith, who was writing about The Sun- shine Girl. Let us quote Ms. Smith. **The already shocking rate of violence against women has risen sharply in the last few years. In this country one of us is raped every 17 minutes, with the most fre- quently used excuse from tapists being ‘‘she asked for it’’. That a woman would en- courage violence and terror against herself is an unreasonable judgement, possible only if men perceive us as being constantly seduc- tive in nature. Such attitudes among mén are fostered and maintained through degrading images like ‘‘The Sunshine Girl.”’ Of particular offence is the photograph in your Wednesday, Sept. !2 issue.”” All bosh. For starters, woman is who says a raped every 17 minutes outside of Ms. Smith and her fellow- feminist propagandists, that ys (some of whom were on parade the other day in Van- Gouver, wearing men’s hats)? q's a guess. Such figures are reamed up by half-witted sociologists. Also by the likes of Rape Relief in an effort to get their mitts on public get this stral ht oe Doug Collins funds (which Bill Bennett has sensibly cut off). It’s like the similar fiction peddled for years in the abor- uon controversy. Not long ago, ‘‘everyone’’ knew that 10,000 American women a year died getting illegal abor- uons in back-alley butcher shops — with a proportional number in Canada. Then Dr. Bernard Nathanson confess- ed to having made it up to impress legislators, he having changed his mind about how good abortion its. To believe the garbage put out by the furies of feminism, you have to believe that most Canadian males are priapic monsters, roaming the streets looking for lust outlets. It’s the same with the propagan- da fad known as ‘‘sexual har- rassment.’’ There may indeed be a few bum-pinchers and patters on the loose (the MP for Quadra seems to be or.; but I have neves seen a bum pinched. What’s the point in pinching a bum? In truth, bum-pinching is no more common than saying ‘bah!’, which | have only heard in books. And if the idiosyn- crasy really exists, there’s an ancient cure for it: the good old clout in the kisser. Barbara Amiel, editor-in- chief of The Toronto Sun, has confessed that she has never once been ‘‘sexually harassed.’’ Not even when she was a waitress. Perhaps there was something wrong with her, she mused. But I’ve seen her, and can assure you she’s marvellous. Smithy went on to suggest there'll be no. safety for women while the depravity known as The Sunshine Girl is shown. If we take that silly argu- ment to its logical conclu- sion, lots of art galleries are also a menace to women. A sheet should be draped over the Venus de Milo, and Tin- toretto’s Three Graces should be turned to the wall. If the Smith girl thinks the much-clothed Sunshine Girl is bad, she should take a look at the pictures in the popular British dailies. And I've never heard that rape ts more rampant in the U.K. than it is anywhere else. So come off it, dear lady. You too can be a Sunshine Gir! if you have what it takes. P.S. Spies inform me that the B.C. 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