It turns out the gangrape of Jyoti Singh Pandey was as much her fault as it was the rapists’. A self-declared “spiritual guru” called Asaram Bapu says so.
Addressing his followers recently, Asaram said that when the girl encountered six drunk men “she should have taken God’s name and could have held the hand of one of the men and said I consider you as my brother and should have said to the other two ‘Brother I am helpless, you are my brother, my religious brother.’
She should have taken God’s name and held their hands and feet…then the misconduct wouldn’t have happened.”
Because with genuine rape, the body has a mechanism to shut that whole thing down. Because if … Read the rest
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)