Is rape ever a woman's fault?

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According to this rapist it is victims fault.

Delhi gang rape convict blames victim: ‘A decent girl won’t roam around at night’ - World - DAWN.COM

One of the convicted rapists in the Delhi gang rape case of 2012 made a shocking statement Sunday when he blamed the victim of the widely reported sexual assault during an interview with a documentary film maker.

According to The Guardian, Leslee Udwin, the maker of the documentary “India’s Daughter” had interviewed convicted rapist Mukesh Singh for her short film when he made the controversial statement.

Mukesh was quoted as saying “You can’t clap with one hand – it takes two hands. A decent girl won’t roam around at night. A girl is more responsible for rape than a boy…”

Premiering on BBC4 on International Women’s Day, the documentary is about the short life and brutal rape of a 23-year-old woman whose tragic end lent impetus to women’s rights activists in India.

The woman, a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist, and a male friend were lured onto a bus by five men and a teenager in 2012. The woman was then repeatedly raped and tortured with a metal bar. Her injuries were so severe that she died two weeks later in a Singapore Hospital.

She became a symbol of the dangers women face in a country where a rape is reported on average every 21 minutes and acid attacks and cases of molestation are common.

Mukesh went on to call the incident an “accident” and said that if the two had not fought back, they would not have savagely beaten her – an act which led to her demise two weeks later.

“She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they would have dropped her off after assaulting her and only hit the boy.”

According to the rapist, the imposition of the death penalty will create an even more dangerous environment for women in India. “Before, they would rape and say, ‘Leave her, she won’t tell anyone.’ Now when they rape, especially the criminal types, they will just kill the girl.”

Mukesh Singh, the driver of the bus boarded by the deceased and her friend, denied involvement in the incident, although DNA evidence has been found against him. His brother, Ram Singh, hung himself in his prison cell just months after the case went to trial.

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Nope. Rape is a physical action thus it requires someone to make the decision to physically do something. Its the rapist who is always to blame. Its like saying a murder victim is to blame for being murdered.

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Under no circumstances is the victim of rape, be it man or woman, ever responsible for the crime that is committed against them.

Perhaps Mukesh Singh needs to be on the receiving end to understand this.

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No. Its stupid to even suggest that rape can be the woman’s fault.

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Obviously a rapist gonna think it’s the woman’s fault.

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Its the patriarchal mindset in many societies that is to blame for such idiotic comments.

“*A decent girl won’t roam around at night. A girl is more responsible for rape than a boy…” *Who are they to decide ?

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BBC News - Delhi rapist says victim shouldn’t have fought back

One comment in this article made me sick, regarding the rape of a 5 year old girl:

One of the men I interviewed, Gaurav, had raped a five-year-old girl. I spent three hours filming his interview as he recounted in explicit detail how he had muffled her screams with his big hand.
He was sitting throughout the interview and had a half-smile playing on his lips throughout - his nervousness in the presence of a camera, perhaps. At one point I asked him to tell me how tall she was. He stood up, and with his eerie half-smile indicated a height around his knees.
When I asked him how he could cross the line from imagining what he wanted to do, to actually doing it - given her height, her eyes, her screams - he looked at me as though I was crazy for even asking the question and said: **“She was beggar girl. Her life was of no value.”

Another sick comment:

I spoke to two lawyers who had defended the murderers of the 23-year-old student at their trial, and what they said was extremely revealing.
“In our society, we never allow our girls to come out from the house after 6:30 or 7:30 or 8:30 in the evening with any unknown person,” said one of the lawyers, ML Sharma.
“You are talking about man and woman as friends. Sorry, that doesn’t have any place in our society. We have the best culture. In our culture, there is no place for a woman.”
The other lawyer, AP Singh, had said in a previous televised interview: “If my daughter or sister engaged in pre-marital activities and disgraced herself and allowed herself to lose face and character by doing such things, I would most certainly take this sort of sister or daughter to my farmhouse, and in front of my entire family, I would put petrol on her and set her alight.”**
He did not disown that comment when I put it to him. “This is my stand,” he said. “I still today stand on that reply.”

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There is so much ignorance in the world.

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Wow.. and he’s still a practicing lawyer?

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Of course, it’s the woman’s fault. If you have a vagina, you are prone to get raped. That’s just natural

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Rape is one segment where I’m glad Pak including rest of the countries is faaaaaaaar behind India. Seriously why in the world they have so many rapists? As someone put it, you better be a cow in India than a woman..

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Sickening.

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The article title has done a very typical thing regarding the content … It is misdirecting … The rapist is not blaming the woman for being raped … He is blaming the woman for being battered to a pulp and being killed. They would have raped her anyway … and they would have beaten the man anyway … but they only wanted to rape her and not batter her to a pulp … The title is saying that he is saying she is to be blamed for the rape … Singh didn’t say that as far I understand … he is saying that she should not have fought back.

I honour her for fighting back and protecting her chastity. He’s a twisted idiot and the newspapers spin news like they do.

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Meanwhile somewhere in South Africa:

Two Pakistani men accused of raping domestic worker in South Africa

Two Pakistani men accused of raping domestic worker in South Africa - World - DAWN.COM

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He said that she was responsible for being raped because she was out at that time.

Also this: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/01/indias-daughter-documentary-rape-delhi-women-indian-men-attitudes

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Hell no. Which woman would agree to be subject to such torturous unconsented activity which will probably, most likely ruin her life. This isn’t some reversed type of fifty shades of grey movie.

The people who decide to go out and say hey, let’s go rape a girl and ruin her life are not even human. To say they are animals would be an insult to the actual animals. They are filthy creatures of which this planet would be better off without.

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Yes you’re right … I read it again earlier …

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I have heard woman saying “such girls get raped”
I think what she wanted to say, as being a girl, that “I think this could have been avoided.”
Just like a guy driving slip his car in a ditch, passer by look at him and think “oh he must have not taken care”

I think people spend too much time decoding such statements.

In this case guy is delusional. He does not understand that he is not passing the " girl was not too careful" statement from distance. He is the actual perpetrator.

May God protect every one from such cruelty