Shitstorm be damned. I do not travel there for exactly this reason. Fuck the backwards culture and lazy lawmaking that allows (and even encourages) women to be treated so brutally. Fuck them right in the ear.

There is a lot of work about the use of rape as a weapon in war, much of it focused on its use during civil wars. It's some of the most disturbing political science literature I know of.

I don't think it's the same. The fact that the Indian government tried to ban the documentary described in the article is particularly off-putting.

Yes, and murder happens everywhere. That doesn't mean I feel as unsafe in NYC today as I would've 20 years ago when the murder rate was 3x as high. Rate of rape is the issue here.

Not at the same level! Jesus!

Me too! I'd vote JUST to see them piss themselves. The best would be a gay Muslim.That christian persecution complex would ratchet up & be a million times worse (somehow). Still it'd be pretty funny. They'd probably secede.

And I wouldn't want to give them any tourism/money until the government gets its shit together on this.

I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of shit for saying this, but India just does NOT seem like a safe place to be a woman. At all. In any capacity.

If she were a man, they wouldn't have raped her.

Actually I think this is a very good* example to illustrate that rape is not about sex, but about exercising control and inflicting harm. Usually, when someone claims that a woman secretly wanted it, her appearance and sexual history are where they claim to find evidence for that. A nun is far from promiscuous. She…

somebody mentioned this on another thread but it deserves repeating. what they will do is set this up as an example of REAL rape. see? this woman was a holy non-slut who got attacked by strangers while defending jesus. anyone whose situation is less wholesome than this can't REALLY have been raped, because they…

I have an aunt who is a nun who is nearing seventy. The thought of someone doing this to her makes me violently ill. Perhaps carve or tattoo "rapist" into their foreheads, a la the swastika in "Inglorious Basterds", so everyone knows who these people are when they are inevitably set free?

theoretically, i don't either, but that doesn't stop me from imagining all the wonderful ways they could be punished.

The BBC article mentioned recent protests in the capital by Christian groups calling for government protection. Apparently they have noticed an increase in the number of attacks against the Christian community.

Probably because she tried to stop them robbing the place.

These men are awful, but this is what happens in a culture that constantly promotes the notion that women are less than dogs.

In my experience, victim blamers love this type of story, because it lets them set up a false dichotomy between "real" rape and sluts who are making up accusations to ruin a poor man's life. They'll be loudly outraged because it's safe; it involves another country and a holy woman.

Sorry, not true. Homophobia is pervasive in America too, regardless of the location (because people are assholes). I've had bottles and slurs thrown at me in San Francisco, of all places, for kissing someone of the same gender in public.

In terms of acceptance, France isn't generally "rabidly" homophobic, but they tend not to want to "know" about your personal life. After all, homosexuality has been legal there since the French Revolution, while in the states homosexuality was only truly legalized after Lawrence vs. Texas in 2003.

I bet he would have gotten away with it if he'd acted like he objected to PDA in general, but he HAD to make them feel bad about who they are by letting them know he objected to same-sex kissing specifically, and now he's in trouble. Hahaha, what a dumbass.