Originally posted by: return_to_hades
Idiots will always call for harsher punishment, hanging, and lynching. Why? It is easy.
It is much more difficult to implement comprehensive sex education. It is not easy to make people have honest conversations about consent. People will squirm if we talk about teaching men and women healthy expressions of sexuality. Because "sanskriti" is more important to people than learning not to slut-shame. No one wants to ask men to be accountable and constantly update their family of their whereabouts and doings. Politicians don't want to deal with teaching cops how to respectfully report and investigate rape. They don't want to teach doctors that two-finger tests are dehumanizing, invasive, and utter bullshit.
So people will scream for violent punishments and feel good about themselves. They do nothing to change their attitudes, check their assumptions, and force society to make important but uncomfortable changes. They do nothing to prevent rape or make it easier for victims to get justice. But they said, "hang rapists". So they are good people.
These same people will say "she was asking for it" when a woman gets date raped by her boyfriend or is assaulted by the Uber driver for being tipsy after a late-night party.
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