{"id":31965,"date":"2012-12-30T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/on-india-and-rape.html"},"modified":"2012-12-30T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:24:51","slug":"on-india-and-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/on-india-and-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"On India and Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud the women (and men) in India speaking out against a culture that focuses on rape as a dishonoring and shaming of women &#8212; turning its victims into even greater victims by how they are considered and mistreated after having been assaulted. I do home that the tragic events around this particular crime mark a sea change in Indian society &#8212; and echoes of the same sentiment in American society, too.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/dam\/assets\/121230052456-india-students-rape-video-tease.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/30\/world\/asia\/misogyny-india\/index.html'>Misogyny in India: We are all guilty<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMisogyny runs so deep in India&#8217;s psychology that even the president&#8217;s son could entangle himself with a remark against women protesters, an actress writes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/QD6caYztYPC' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud the women (and men) in India speaking out against a culture that focuses on rape as a dishonoring and shaming of women &#8212; turning its victims into even greater victims by how they are considered and mistreated after having been assaulted. I do home that the tragic events around this particular crime mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/on-india-and-rape.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On India and Rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10705,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/pakistan_tiptoes_forward.html","url_meta":{"origin":31965,"position":0},"title":"Pakistan tiptoes forward to the late 19th Century &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Nov-06 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Woo-hoo! 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