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Tess Catalano assessment of Take Back the Night event, 1982

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all live, and from which all men benefit. We are taught from birth, by our parents, or friends and their parents, by our grandparents, by school-teachers and babysitters, by professors and colleagues, by Playboy nad Ms., by the Des Moines Register and the Daily Iowan, we are taught: that boys wear blue, are more important, get the jobs, earn the money, lift the weights, kiss the bride, and beat the wife. We are taught that girls wear pink, are more supportive, clean the house, breed the children, nurse the baby, wash the clothes, and never let an ugly thought enter our pretty little heads. Yet, when this total and consummate system goes awry -- and it has, it is, and it will -- when this excuse for civilization slips up, and one woman raises her eyes, her hand, her fist -- then men rape. They beat and abuse in order to teach and maintain the control they have so thoroughly soldered in our brains. Thus, any and all attempts to disrupt a seperatist, woman-only event, and event where women are trying to speak out about the barbarism in which we are forced to exist, is an attempt, by men to maintain the power that violently oppresses women. 
   There are no excuses.

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all live, and from which all men benefit. We are taught from birth, by our parents, or friends and their parents, by our grandparents, by school-teachers and babysitters, by professors and colleagues, by Playboy nad Ms., by the Des Moines Register and the Daily Iowan, we are taught: that boys wear blue, are more important, get the jobs, earn the money, lift the weights, kiss the bride, and beat the wife. We are taught that girls wear pink, are more supportive, clean the house, breed the children, nurse the baby, wash the clothes, and never let an ugly thought enter our pretty little heads. Yet, when this total and consummate system goes awry -- and it has, it is, and it will -- when this excuse for civilization slips up, and one woman raises her eyes, her hand, her fist -- then men rape. They beat and abuse in order to teach and maintain the control they have so thoroughly soldered in our brains. Thus, any and all attempts to disrupt a seperatist, woman-only event, and event where women are trying to speak out about the barbarism in which we are forced to exist, is an attempt, by men to maintain the power that violently oppresses women. There are no excuses.