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...Kelly Bowdren writes in her recent editorial ("Take Your Night and...," April 21, 1994) that "however helpful and self-empowering a rally and march may appear, take Back the Night is not an occasion on which to deal with these issues [violence toward women...
...question what alternatives Bowdren would proffer in place of a nine day conference which devotes over 24 hours of discussion to the issues of rape and domestic violence...
...rally's objective is not to convince a woman that she was raped, and it was not Bowdren's place (as she admits) or ours to qualify the words of one who chooses to speak...
Thankfully Bowdren's uninformed attack did not deter men from participating in Take Back the Night. Men were welcome and present at all events this past week. Men can work for the prevention of violence. Men are also raped and abused...
...fact remains that over 95 percent of all rapists and batterers are men--this is not feminist militancy, this is reality. Bowdren mocks the rally's participants for considering "the problem of violence against women lodged in the institution of patriarchy, and for some, just men in general...