Well, feminism isn’t something they see as needed because things like this haven’t happened here during their life time. What they see it as is the fight for wage equality, abortion rights, ect. Which to be fair are the largest things (most public) in the US. So for them feminism isn’t fighting for things they believe…

Exactly. We are going to have your sisters raped because it’s embarrassing to YOU to be a brother to “dishonored” women. Like the good old days when a slave’s rape was considered trespassing on her owner’s property.

And I’m sorry if it seemed like I was attacking you! You’re one of the few people who’s comments I enjoy. :)

Seriously. I’ve pointed this out before, but...

It’s illegal in India too. It’s a group of local elders run amok and acting contrary to Indian law.

Thank you!

Its like fucking clockwork whenever a writer posts something about India. And the majority of the people who read this site honestly think they’re not as toxic as a Fox News or Breitbart comment board. They’re unable to talk about how utterly sickening this is without disparaging yucky brown people. Meanwhile, here in…

They might. Additionally India is a huge country, so they may not be able to do much except when people petition the courts.

But seriously, just think about how I’m feeling right now. Any damn thing that’s negative happening in India and people are ready to get pitchforks out to condemn ALL Indians. Americans get mad when they are wrongly stereotyped as being all hillbillies. It’s a similar thing. You can condem activities by a few people…

Yes because I’m tired of seeing assholes be racist about my country and people. Every other country has rapes but when it’s India, all of a sudden everybody’s criticizing the culture and all the people.

We allow it (or similar things) all over the place. We are pretty close allies with Saudia Arabia for instance and have been for a while but they have a police force colloquially know as the Police of Vice and Virtue.

Amnesty notes that the punishment was handed down by an “unelected, all-male” council. Those councils operate outside of the official legal system,

While I will not make any statements against any culture, and freely admit the U.S. is awash in misogyny, please tell me any instance in modern U.S. culture when a woman was sentenced to be raped by any legal governing body. I'll wait, because I really want to know if there is one instance of that.

But they aren’t sanctioned courts, even if locally they have the power to get away with it. Groups of white folks have been raping, torturing, and killing black folks in this country for centuries. It was still happening regularly and semi-officially in some American communities as recently as fifty years ago.

No that’s not what I’m defending. I’m mad about how when anything negative happens in India, everybody starts ranting about how the culture is blah blah and how the people are blah blah. I still remember some Jez regulars calling all Indians savages. That is really insane.

Yes because I’m tired of seeing assholes be racist about my country and people. Every other country has rapes but when it’s India, all of a sudden everybody’s criticizing the culture and all the people.

it’s natural to want to defend your country but publicly sanctioned punishment rapes might not be the best hill to die on...

MASSIVELY EDITED: I cowtow. I really don’t feel like getting into a debate on the internet right now and don’t believe the things being attributed to me so I will just remove the text, say ‘What is happening in this one place in India sucks!” And move on

The worst part is, them existing in the lowest caste means theres almost a 100% chance they’ve already been raped and exploited dozens of times.

“The sisters weren’t convicted of any crimes, rather their sentence was punishment for their brother’s elopement.”