I don't think so. And the reason is this: it's extremely hard to compare rape across nations due to the very different ways they define rape and the ability of women to report rape.
But America by far has the best system in place for women to report rape. The law is on their side because this country treats women equally now. Which makes me question the motives of this march in the process.
Exactly, and that is why I say it's more like Sweden. Women feel generally safe in being able to report sexual assault.
Even still the US has a very high instance of rape and victimization of women, more than a majority of other countries in the world. Which is why I don't understand why we're focusing on India when a far worse epidemic of rape is happening right under our noses.
Actually...I don't understand why YOU are focusing on India. I brought up India in one post as one example, and you (and some others) are making it into more than what I actually said.
May I ask why?
No one would have said anything against me if I brought up Pakistan. Does the fact that this is India make it
more acceptable or less barbaric? Looking at the reactions of some here - it apparently does.
In addition, there are some distinct differences between rape in western countries like the US, and in countries like India and others that are similar - not the least being the ability of women to report it without severe repercussions (which can include murder or being doused in acid).
India’s Caste System Punishes Man by Ordering Rape of His Sisters
Two Indian sisters have been forced out of their home village and are on the run after local leaders said the young women should be raped and publically humiliated as punishment for their brother’s affair with a married woman.
Untouchable? India's Dalit women speak out about sexual assault and rape - CNN.com
The country's 2011 census, the latest available, states that just over 16 percent of India's population are Dalits -- making up roughly 200 million people. According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, more than four Dalit women are raped every day in India. The NRCB's 2014 statistics say crime against Dalits rose 19%. In many of the cases, these crimes are committed by upper caste perpetrators.
Last week, a young Dalit woman in the state of Haryana reported being gang raped by a group of men, including some of the same individuals accused of raping her three years ago.
Caste-Based Rape in India – Indians 4 Social Change
Caste-based rape is a tool of domination that the upper castes use against lower caste women. The lowest caste, Dalits, (or untouchables) face sexual violence from higher castes.
There is a huge history of caste violence and inter-caste warfare that precedes modern-day caste-based sexual violence. However, one striking historical occurrence largely shaped the power dynamic. In some regions, newly wed Dalit women would have to sleep with the higher-caste landowners on their wedding night. This type of caste-based gender power dynamic highly influenced modern relations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/opinion/indias-feudal-rapists.html
WHEN a distressed father is reporting his daughter’s disappearance to a policeman in India, there are some questions he doesn’t want to hear. “What is your caste?” is one of them. Yet, the father, Sohan Lal, said this was the first thing the police asked him last Tuesday, when he begged them for help. After revealing his low-caste background as a Shakya, Mr. Lal said the officers mocked him and refused to lift a finger.
Hours later, Mr. Lal’s daughter, 12, and a female cousin, 14, were found hanging by their scarves from a mango tree in Katra Saadatganj, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. They had been raped. His daughter had last been seen with a group of brothers from the Yadav caste, which is the dominant caste in the village.
In India, it’s not easy to report on rape
She wept as she told us how one wintry day, in a field she had been tilling, her boss pushed her down to the ground and raped her. She wept as she described how she’d gone to the police and they didn’t believe her. She wept as she told us how the entire village turned against her.
As she spoke, she took the edge of her sequined-trimmed sari, the color of mangoes, and wiped her cheeks. She sat alone on a string cot in her front yard in a village about four hours east of New Delhi, India’s capital. A crowd had gathered a short distance away, including the father of her alleged rapist. He was laughing at her.
“The villagers have all been very bad to me,” the woman said. “Nobody believes me. They think I’m faking it. They said they will kill me if I don’t go back on my words. I’m helpless.”
Reporting about rape in Indian villages is not easy. The stigma of sexual assault is so pervasive that the first response to a rape is often silence, or victim shaming. Ancient caste and family alliances prevail, deals are struck, money changes hands.
