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OUR LIFE MONTHLY, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Vol. XXXIII JUNE 1976 No. 6 EDITORIAL Everyday routine buries us like sand. Day-to-day worries and concerns - each small and insignificant in itself - push their way into our consciousness, heart and mind like grains of sand. Often, this sand does not allow us to see the essence of matters or to differentiate between important and trivial things. It can bury all striving to ward improvement and growth. We must free ourselves of this sand often. We must shake it off completely, so that not one grain remains; for even one grain can work its way into the con sciousness and fester there, not allowing us to enjoy the good things in life. A large part of life can become lost beneath the sand of the mundane. While it is true that the irritation from a grain of sand can cause the formation of a pearl inside an oyster, not all oysters will produce pearls under the influence of pain. Few people can change the irritation of the every day into a thing of beauty, good or love. For this reason it is necessary to remove the sand of routine. In removing it however, we sometimes shed it on others. When we complain about the trivial disappointments and annoyances we experience from WOMEN AND CRIME The chastity standard, when manipulated and abused by defense lawyers, functions as a mechanism to pin guilt, or at least partial blame, on the victim. When one looks at the studies and statistics of rape sit uations, an entirely different picture emerges. Several facts will suffice as countervailing evidence: 1) 41% of rape victims are children under the age of 16; 16% are under the age of 13; approximately 18% are over 30, some as old as 82; 2) 71% of all rapes are planned in advance, with the rapist having no particular woman in mind; 11% are part ially planned; only 16% are spontaneeous; 3) the National Commision on the Causes and Pre vention of Violence found that in only 4.4% of rape cases could the victim's behavior be classified as precipitous — that is, in word, gesture or action capable of being construed as inviting the attact of the assailant; in the Editor Marta Baczynsky day to day, we try to rid ourselves of them. But in doing so we add to someone else's burden. And in talking about our irritations we don't cause them to shrink, but rather, to grow. Therefore, when unburdening ourselves of the sand of the everyday, we should take care to leave it outside the thresholds of our homes. Even commonplace events shine brightly when seen in an optimistic light. It is simply a matter of dis regarding the negative and concentrating on the positive. If you find cooking a chore, think about sharing the meal with those close to you. If a co-worker is un pleasant, force yourself to say something nice to him, or at least to stay silent after he has baited you. Perhaps then some amiable characteristic may reveal itself and the sand of the everyday will fall away uncovering human qualities. After we have rid ourselves of this sand, we must learn to appreciate the things which we had previously not noticed: the sun, the rain, music, flowers — the worth while things. Let's shake off the sand of the everyday especially now, when the summer is before us and we are pre paring to rest. MOTRIA KUSHNIR case of other violent crimes, the commission found that the percentage of discernible victim precipitation was 22% for homicide, 14.4% for assault and 10.7% for armed robbery; rape victims were responsible for less pre cipitant behavior than the victims of any other kind of violent crime; 4) the largest specific category of location of rapes is inside the woman's home; 31% of the reported rapes occur in conjunction with unlawful breaking and enter ing into, and buglary of, the victim's home; 70% of arrested rapists have prior police records; 85% of them are repeaters and show up on police blotters for the fel onies of butglary, assault, robbery and homicide; 5) 43% of the victims do not know their assailants at all; in 30% of the cases the victim knows the rapist only superficially. Within the realm of resistance, force and consent НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 1976 21
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