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In reply to the discussion: Indian woman jumps off moving train to flee rape [View all]golfguru
(4,987 posts)12. It is true that rape is under reported crime, but....
I just do not want any one to get the idea that India has far more rapes than here.
Most unreported rapes are by some one known to the victim, such as date rape or by
a relative. Rape by a stranger is much more reported. In over crowded India, a rape on
a public place is hard to go unnoticed. I never saw a deserted street in Mumbai during
my last visit many moons ago. Even at night, I saw countless people sleeping on the
street. Of course in Mumbai temperature seldom drops below 70 F even at night.
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i am hearing ya. sounded like free reign on women. hurtling selves off trains.
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#18
Insert the tablets, fall down and flail your arms and legs as if having a seizure. I like it.
Doremus
Jan 2013
#13
Good one. Perhaps combined with a vacant stare and drool. Passing gas might work wonders too. nt
Doremus
Jan 2013
#37
Rapists aren't attracted to women. Rape is a crime of violence, not sexual attraction.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#20
Psychology Today and random books listed on Amazon aren't authoritative sources.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#33
What is your point? That women are responsible for being raped because of the way they dress?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#35
I don't have the study at hand but almost all rapists can't remember what their victim was wearing
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#42
india's police are very corrupt, and of those who ARE reported many rapists end up going free
JI7
Jan 2013
#24
and i have travellled to india also , and people do have privacy and women don't always scream
JI7
Jan 2013
#53
I categorically refuse to believe the Indian numbers you present there. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#25
The stats are straight from Wikipedia, your quarrel should be with them, not me..here is the link
golfguru
Jan 2013
#43
I love ya dkf but an untrained woman with a gun trying to fight off a trained military officer?
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#30