Women stand up for your rights!

I don't know about you, but I try to keep up with current affairs throughout the world. My homepage is CNN and I like to look around to see what's big in the US as well as over the pond. And India is catching my eye.

The lack of equality in different areas of the world is appalling. It's nauseating how people treat each other of different races, religions, or sexes. I know this is nothing new, but there has been lots of attention in the media recently. If you haven't been paying attention, then listen up. And if you don't care, then you are a horrible person.

In December there was a brutal gang rape of a 23 year old woman that resulted in her death. She was a women's rights activist. There were 6 men involved that are currently being tried for the crime, with one of them being a minor. Just think about that for a minute. A woman was raped by 6 different people over and over again in a horrific manner and died. One of the attackers was a teenager.

The Indian media and citizens have been pushing for reform on women's rights. Not all of rape or sexual assault accusations are examined. Many times, they are pushed under the rug. There have been talks and some change, and now they are working on getting rid of a terrible "scientific" rape test. Part of the exam is the "two finger test." It sounds just as awful as it is. In addition to a doctor examining the woman's hymen to see if it is intact (which can be broken by many different ways), they stick two fingers in her to see if she is used to sexual interactions. By their logic, if she is used to this penetration, then she must not have been raped.

This is so offensive. That assumes that only virgins get raped. That married women or other sexually active women cannot be raped. In addition to that, it would be incredibly traumatic for these women to have a strange man put anything into her after being raped. It can cause serious psychological damage. You can learn more about this here. I recommend going and learning more about the incidences going on in developing countries.


Things like these happen around the world all the time, and in many developing or undeveloped nation, go uninvestigated and the woman is blamed or is a liar. This makes me so grateful to be living in the US where I have the right to persecute any attacker and know that it won't be ignored. I know that if I speak my mind, like the Indian woman did, I won't be raped and killed for it. When people start saying that the US is a terrible place to live or that the country is going down the tubes, I automatically assume the don't read the news. Because if they think that living here is so awful, how could they imagine living in these other countries?

Be grateful you can vote, dress how you want, say what you want, go wherever you want, believe in a god or not, and not worried that you're committing a crime or will be treated as though you did. This is a wonderful place to live.