So lets take a look at the problem on the ground in India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feiJc5VH4r4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUenfHiE3W8
And, the problem from another perspective:
WTFudge !!! Is going on in India !!!!
by *lost* 13 Replies latest social current
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fulltimestudent
Last post on this topic (I must finish an essay today)
I posted a link above to an article by an Indian writer ( http://kindlemag.in/viewEditorsChoiseDetails.php?id=NTk0&&displayid= )
He makes some interesting comparisons, read it and interpret his message how you want.
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Their Rape:
In a rape culture, rape should appear as the least shocking of realities. Sure, India has a 26% conviction rate, but in the United States, there are an estimated 400,000 "rape kits" currently backlogged. And by the time the kits are tested, the statute of limitations expires and the rapists no longer get charged. Only 24 percent of rapists are arrested in America. The statistic is not any more encouraging in the United Kingdom either. The British government acknowledges that as many as 95% of rapes are never reported to the police, and the country has roughly 6.5% conviction rate. Los Angeles with 923 cases, Philadelphia with 945 cases and New York City with 1092 incidents of reported rape cases, the differences between first world and third world countries soon begin to fade when it comes to treatment of women. According to FBI, a violent crime occurs every 25.3 seconds with a murder every 35.6 minutes while forcible rape takes place every 6.2 minutes. Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Centre reports that 78 women are forcibly raped each minute in the U.S. (which is 1,871 per day or 683,000 per year). Over 23% of lesbian and bisexual women had been raped compared to 6% of their heterosexual peers. Likewise, 83% of women and 32% of men with developmental disabilities have been sexually assaulted.
America has no national rape law and among the victims of hate crimes, the number of raped women is double the number of those murdered. Not to mention, of the average 90,000 rapes reported, only 20,000 rapists are identified each year. Moreover, statutory rape is excluded from the definition of rape, just as forcible oral or anal penetrations are. Also excluded from the definition of rape are penetration of vagina or anus with an object or other body part, the rape of a man, the rape of a woman by another woman, any non-consensual rape that does not involve physical force such as rape during the drugged or drunk conditions.
Dwelling upon the uncanny resemblance between India and the United States, the "culture" in Rape Culture emerges as merely a condition, not the root. The political economy - the various stages of evolving feudalism and capitalism - offers the systemic grounds for rape normative. Towards that extent, rape culture is a global, and not a national, phenomenon and it sanctions violence against women by men across all cultures of the world.
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*lost*
FTS
I suggest you actually read my words.
I said - these things have been going on for generations. In EVERY COUNTRY / CULTURE.
The point is not 'just India'. But SOCIETY. World wide.
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fulltimestudent
*lost*, I owe you an apology, I scanned your posts too quickly. You make it clear from the first post that you were describing a world-wide problem.
We are on the same page, but you had the page open first. Forgive my lack of acknowledgement, please.
FTS