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7:14 pm - 01/15/2013

Rape Could Happen to Me in India: Freida Pinto



In an Interview to CNN's Erin Burnett,Freida Pinto talks about Growing Number of Rape Cases in India




Last week when asked about this Incident Top Chef host Padma lakshmi said that ,"I was saddened and I was sickened. I literally felt nauseous. I'm from India and while it (the attack) didn't surprise me, it disgusted me... And it reminded me, it brought back to me all of those feelings of when I was walking in Delhi. "

"I used to ride the bus in India to school and I hated it. I hated going on a crowded bus because they would always pinch you or grab you and, you know, when you're a teenager... I went to school (for) some years in India and it was terrible...

"There is no actual word for rape. The closest word [in Hindi, India's predominant language] is I guess lootna, which kind of means to take someone's honour away. But to say that because a woman has been violated she no longer has her chastity or her honour is missing the point. Therein lies the problem."





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mynamehere07 15th-Jan-2013 02:15 pm (UTC)
Yup. It's sad that men being sexually assaulted is ignored, laughed off and dismissed. Granted, sexual crimes against men don't happen as often as crimes against women, but it is still a problem.

Hell even on here, we seem to not take a man being assaulted seriously. I remember a post about a model that had been harassed and a good chunk of the comments were "Damn, he's hot, I'd rape him too," or "he's lying because men don't get erections without being turned on." That post was a while ago, and I'm slowly seeing a change in thinking, but it's baby steps.
fuckyess 15th-Jan-2013 02:17 pm (UTC)
that post wasn't that long ago, actually. i remember it and i was shocked reading it because the vast majority of comments were like that or agreeing.

i know it's so under reported (more so than sexual assault against women?), so any statistics are hard to know for sure, but i wonder if sexual abuse against men is more often by women or by other men.
mynamehere07 15th-Jan-2013 02:35 pm (UTC)
My gut wants to say that it's man on man violence. But like you said, since it's underreported and has such a stigma, we'd probably never have accurate statistics.
hollis1975 15th-Jan-2013 03:31 pm (UTC)
i dont know about other men but my husband was sexually assaulted by a woman right before i met him. he is still mortified to this day
luvallthis 15th-Jan-2013 04:49 pm (UTC)
Omg, that is awful! :(
fuckyess 15th-Jan-2013 10:45 pm (UTC)
:( i'm sorry
comalies 15th-Jan-2013 02:23 pm (UTC)
Seriously, what the hell?
comalies 15th-Jan-2013 03:27 pm (UTC)
...oh.
ialmrnt5 15th-Jan-2013 03:48 pm (UTC)
ugh... this is around the time i really realized most of the regular commenters on ONTD are assholes/completely hypocritical
sevenbeat 15th-Jan-2013 03:51 pm (UTC)
I'm glad I stayed far away from that post
pretend_to_care 15th-Jan-2013 02:45 pm (UTC)
And wasn't there a post recently about one of the extras in the Magic Mike movie trying to stick her finger up Matthew McConaughey butt or something like that? I remember it took almost an entire page of "OMG LOLOLOL" until someone pointed out that it was really assault-y.
mynamehere07 15th-Jan-2013 02:49 pm (UTC)
I remember reading that.
deathbytamarind 16th-Jan-2013 10:18 pm (UTC)
I remember being D: when I read the article and then DDDDDDD: when I read the comments.
mydogfred 15th-Jan-2013 04:29 pm (UTC)
even that Matthew McConaunaghy post a few days ago was gross
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