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Tess Catalano assessment of Take Back the Night event, 1982

1982-10-24 Assessment of Take Back The Night

24OCT

Well TBTN is herstory. N ow we can wait for the men to alter it. The press ought to have fun with this one. 

[Handwritten] Yes - seems that they have.

Some days I wish I were just dumb and insensitive. I wish that I didn't care about injustice, oppression, I wish I were a blank. 

[Handwritten] but they it passes!

I know that this will be blown out of proportion. That all the little things that went on. My confrontation with Channel TWO (the guy was rude, so I was too)  That the DI photographer will whine and complain about the march. Little Derek will feel like a man. And hundreds of women will read the papers and feel good and secure with their menfriends because they weren't aren't as radical as those disgusting dykes.  Those man haters, those women who have gone too far, given feminism a bad name. Ms. magazine will 

[handwritten insert] responses in the journals have been positive! 

intact in it's subtle and not so subtle killing of women in it's advertising a few more sensitive men will embrace feminism, get the job they need and a wife who still loves them. But someday, oneday (the statistics prove it) someday a friend of a friend will be raped, a sister in a sorority will be followed home, a daughter of a cousin will be abused, and everytime and anytime it will be a man who will cause the pain, continue the oppression, foment fear, stifle a cry, . It will be a man who gets the job, beats his wife a man who earns a dollar, fondles his brothers little girl over christma. It will be a man who champions abortion rights, and sexually harrasses his MA student. It will be a man who will ruin the life a woman, for so long. 
I am not unreasonable. 

[Handwritten] Actually you're quite accurate

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24OCT Well TBTN is herstory. N ow we can wait for the men to alter it. The press ought to have fun with this one. [Handwritten] Yes - seems that they have. Some days I wish I were just dumb and insensitive. I wish that I didn't care about injustice, oppression, I wish I were a blank. [Handwritten] but they it passes! I know that this will be blown out of proportion. That all the little things that went on. My confrontation with Channel TWO (the guy was rude, so I was too) That the DI photographer will whine and complain about the march. Little Derek will feel like a man. And hundreds of women will read the papers and feel good and secure with their menfriends because they weren't aren't as radical as those disgusting dykes. Those man haters, those women who have gone too far, given feminism a bad name. Ms. magazine will [handwritten insert] responses in the journals have been positive! intact in it's subtle and not so subtle killing of women in it's advertising a few more sensitive men will embrace feminism, get the job they need and a wife who still loves them. But someday, oneday (the statistics prove it) someday a friend of a friend will be raped, a sister in a sorority will be followed home, a daughter of a cousin will be abused, and everytime and anytime it will be a man who will cause the pain, continue the oppression, foment fear, stifle a cry, . It will be a man who gets the job, beats his wife a man who earns a dollar, fondles his brothers little girl over christma. It will be a man who champions abortion rights, and sexually harrasses his MA student. It will be a man who will ruin the life a woman, for so long. I am not unreasonable. [Handwritten] Actually you're quite accurate