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^ That is exactly what you're implying though.
And those women are no more safe from getting into trouble than people like Priya (as in those who live alone).
If you look at numbers, more than 85% of rape cases are pre-planned, and committed by people whom the victim knows.
Those spine chilling crime stories that show up in the newspaper also involve martial rapes, women who are 'under the protection' of men and family (because you had mentioned that you're being general in terms of gender). They don't mention women who work, go out, and end up getting abused because that is not considered "rape" in the eyes of law(well it is, but no one pays heed to it). It is always the rape/abuse victim that gets blamed in those situations, because she shouldn't have 'gone out in the first place' or 'she shouldn't have done...' Those stories do not end up in the papers because they are not even taken into consideration.
By saying that Priya could've prevented the situation from tonight's episode from happening by staying with her father, you are implying that it is her fault and that all of this is happening because she is living by herself. Priya was mocked even when she stayed with her father. She would've been just as likely to encounter a situation like this even if she lived with her father. And she lived with her father when Brahma abused her.
fyi, I do read the newspaper everyday (:
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