Will bus gang-rape change India's culture of rape?

December 21, 2012 08:30

The Delhi bus gang-rape knocked India's entrenched blame-the-victim mentality off its footing. How to demonise a girl who dared watch a film with a male friend before boarding a private bus in a relatively affluent neighborhood around 9 pm, before most Indians even sit down for dinner?

What did she do to invite the next 90-minutes of torture, as six drunk men on board (including the driver, who passed the wheel to a friend so as not to miss his shot) raped her in turn before beating her so badly with an iron rod that medical staff described the site of her naked body, which had been dumped with her friend's alongside the highway, as horrifying?

Could this possibly mean that India's pervasive rape culture can't be blamed on women after all?

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