Time published an article making the following points on India: 1. More rapes are being reported now: Along with the modernization of society, more Indian women are being educated and are going out to work. They are breaking out of the subservient mold that society had given to them and are more independent. While this means they are more likely to be sexually abused, it also means they are more likely — compared with women of a previous generation — to report rapes and confront sexual predators. In the three months after the Delhi gang rape, the number of rapes reported in the city more than doubled to 359, from the 143 reported in January-March of 2012. This doesn’t necessarily mean more rapes are happening now, just that more women are emboldened to come out and report.
2. India actually has a high conviction rate for rape: According to the Guardian, just 7% of reported rapes in the U.K. resulted in convictions during 2011-12. In Sweden, the conviction rate is as low as 10%. France had a conviction rate of 25% in 2006. Poor India, a developing nation with countless challenges, managed an impressive 24.2% conviction rate in 2012. That’s thanks to the efforts of a lot of good people — police, lawyers, victims and their families — working heroically with limited resources. 3. The media report everything: According to Dave Prager, the American author of Delirious Delhi, crimes that “wouldn’t garner even a sentence in an American paper because so many bigger crimes would elbow it out of the way” are obsessively reported in Indian news publications. Post the Delhi gang rape, Indian media have faithfully recorded each and every rape case, highlighted them for the world and continue to do so. 4. Most Indians, men and women, hate the reputation that rapists have given their country: No country in the world can claim to have witnessed protests against rape on the scale of India’s, where people turned out in the tens of thousands to voice their shock and sadness. It was people power that forced the government to change existing rape laws and drew the world’s attention to the problem. What happens in other countries? This may not be a typical example, but the rape of a teen girl by high school football players in the Steubenville, Ohio had many in the town sympathizing with the rapists and not the victim. And in Poodleland UK, government is refusing to release very old files on child sex abuse (and murder) involving politicians. More than 500,000 women and children were trafficked in the first year after wall fall. On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 6:04:51 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > The point to me is these Indians don't seem to trust the law to do much. > And they don't look like vigilantes to me either. I'll be your Poodle > Gabby, as long as you mash my food. > > On Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:07:16 UTC, Gabby wrote: > > I'm with Molly on this one. Your comparison deflects from the issue. Brits > have become so wimpy these days - monarchic poodles of the great > Republicans. Triangulation is key here. Grass roots empowerment for > the front garden lawn, but not in the corn fields where they minimize the > harvest output! No Bottom-up grass without Top-down sunshine control! > > Am Samstag, 7. März 2015 schrieb archytas : > > Not my idea of one either Molly. Though better this kind of violence than > being shepherded into war quietly. > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 10:22:58 PM UTC, Molly wrote: > > Not the grass roots movement I had in mind. I'm with Allan on this one. > Murder in response to anything is not the answer. (Self defense is > different.) > > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 5:20:12 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: > > Thousands of furious Indians swarmed the streets to publicly - and > violently - kill a man who was suspected of being a rapist. > > The pictures have emerged after they broke into a prison, kidnapped the > man, stripped him naked and mercilessly beat him to death in front of a > frenzied crowd. > > A 25-year-old believed to be part of the mob was injured when police > opened fire and he later died in hospital. > > > Taking justice into their own hands, the angry crowd was a terrifying > portrayal of the country's increasingly aggressive stance against sexual > violence. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981515/Justice- > Indian-style-Angry-mob-breaks-prison-kidnaps-man-accused- > raping-student-stripping-naked-dragging-four-miles- > beating-death-street.html > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 8:17:55 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > Thiedeous. > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 8:06:46 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: > > Into te deep blue sea.. > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: We are going backwards. > > Aw - the owl and the pussycar sailed away ... > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 6:19:25 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: > > Do you enjoy poetry? > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > > ... > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > ... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
