“She should just be silent”: the real roots of India’s rape culture

[BlueJazz]

"A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy," Mukesh Singh, one of the six rapists convicted in the 2012 attack, says in the documentary, because "a decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night." "Housework and housekeeping is for girls," he claimed, "not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20 percent of girls are good."

If women are not "good," he said, men have a right to "teach them a lesson" by raping them. And if that happens, the woman being raped has a responsibility to silently accept the assault. "When being raped, she shouldn't fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape."

In a 2011 study, nearly one in four Indian men admitted to committing rape — by far the highest of any country included in the sample.

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/5/8156881/india-rape

[A Little Weird]

1. Wow

Scratch India off the list of countries I want to visit.

[malaise]

2. What a sucking sick scumbag

What's more is the young lady they raped was coming from the cinema with her boyfriend.

[bettyellen]

3. I want to live in a world where who she was with does not matter- this narrative of getting a man to

protect you from the rest of the men? It has got to go.
Women should be free to roam the earth without having to resort to protection from a husband or daddy.

[moondust]

4. Rape suspect dragged out of Indian jail, killed by mob

The mob that broke into the main jail in the state's Dimapur district was comprised of "thousands" of people, Doungal told CNN. "Many of them were students in uniform," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/asia/india-nagaland-rape-suspect-mob-killing/

Wow.

[gollygee]

5. I'm guessing that was largely

due to him being an "undocumeneted Bangladesh settler." There's xenophobia and that kind of thing in India too.

[moondust]

6. Could be.