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Replying to @HPluckrose
Actually I think here in India a lot of people do need persuading of that. There's a culture here of stalking, 'trying your luck', etc. And
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
marital rape is still legal and most think it's a contradiction in terms (wife has a duty to offer sex on demand to husband).
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Aspects of it are actually glorified thru cinema, pop culture. I see it all the time in my work on workplace harassment.
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Replying to @gita_ @IonaItalia
Yes. Indian family member tells me of films where rape victims redeem themselves & get their rapists to be kind through unremitting love.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Marital rape, for sure. Some of it has changed, but not enough. Redemption of abusers / 'bad boys' thru 'pure love' remains a cultural motif
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Replying to @gita_ @IonaItalia
Yes. It was one of her mother's favourite films. Woman is raped, married attacker, he beats her. She saves his life by sucking snake venom
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They live happily ever after. Another 1 where a man is an absolute hero for managing to love a rape survivor. Absolutely horrifying.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
TBF, that's prolly from the 70's/80's. It's less blatant, and therefore more insidious now. Esp. from self-proclaimed "feminist" films.
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