• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    This is kind of something that actually happens (or at least used to happen) in India.

    If a man rapes a woman, people say that he must marry the woman, because “her honour is ruined” or something, and nobody else will accept her as a wife.

    I’m pretty sure this still happens in rural areas, where panchayat is the judge and jury.

    • reparæi [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I’ve seen interviews of rapists justifying their actions in jail by saying they’ll marry her, the country is indeed 60% rural and unfortunately very backwards.