In Your Rape is Worse Than Mine, Abdulali writes about the “ridiculous” practice of ranking rape and if this is a defence mechanism of the survivor. Our prevalent, existing conversations of rape, assault, agency and consent all lack two things – “equality and respect.” “Why are we saying that sex is pleasurable for one gender and not for the other? No wonder we cannot differentiate between pleasure and rape most of the time.”This, she asserts, will change with education alone. “We talk to our kids about genocide, caste and communal violence, bikini waxes, then why not rape? We must talk about rape, and we must talk about how we talk about rape.”

Source: dna February 17, 2019 01:18 UTC