A group of South African Men explain why they rape..

[HipChick]

A recent Sky News survey reveals the harrowing attitudes some South African men hold towards rape. Some claim women “want to get raped,” while others say they don’t feel bad because “she was good to sleep with.”

The study is unscientific, but recent official reports on rape and assault also offer horrific insights. Last week international researchers found that one in four men in some parts of Asia admitted to raping a woman, and one-third of women worldwide have been victims of domestic or sexual assault.

Sky News asked 38 men if they had raped a woman; 28 said they had, and explained why and how. It’s difficult to read just one side of the story — especially the rapists.

http://news.sky.com/story/1144107/shocking-attitudes-to-rape-in-south-africa

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/a-group-of-south-african-men-explained-why-they-raped

[LumosMaxima]

1. Kick. nt

[Vashta Nerada]

2. That second link was hard to read.

It was absolutely disgusting and horrifying. Those men are sociopaths. None of them showed remorse for what they have done.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. They are the product of their culture, and almost all of the world's dominant cultures

place women in the category of chattel. As we look at the origins of this we inevitably come back to religions.

[whathehell]

8. All the world's dominant cultures

are run by men, and I really don't think you can blame this on religion, particularly.

It's a simple "Might Makes Right" situation.

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. Consider that this state of idiocy only came about after the desert god of death gained popularity.

When women ruled the world, for the previous 40,000 years or so, this was not the case.

And from where, do you suppose, that the idea that might makes right came from?

[El_Johns]

13. I don't think we really know how it was when women ruled the world.

Actually, I don't think we really know much. Today I was talking to someone 20 years younger about blue laws when I was young, & everything being closed on Sunday. He basically didn't believe me. Then he said today's people (like I'm not one of today's people) couldn't live that way after I told him the slower pace of life was actually very nice.

I think our imaginings about the past are filtered through so many veils they're pretty much useless. Like the difference between imagining another country & really living there.

[whathehell]

15. Human beings have been in a "state of idiocy", you might say, since time immemorial

The "desert god of death" as you refer to him was not even known for millenniums in most of the world -

- Think China, Africa, Greece or Imperial Rome and The Americas -- and yet what we know of their societies shows an

almost exclusive pattern of male dominated religions and societies.

I don't know of any empirical evidence of "women ruling the world" for any substantial

amount of time, if ever.

[Matariki]

3. depressing.

[el_bryanto]

4. That is pretty depressing. And possibly not that far off in some cases

to what you might here in the US. Particularly the argument that "she owed it to me" on some level.

Bryant

[raccoon]

7. ITA. Probably similar responses would come up in many countries. nt

[seabeyond]

9. this would be the point. and this would be why we discuss it. to understand it is not the monster

behind the bush, but how we are raised that allows us to feel a right, and no remorse.

[Ilsa]

5. These animals won't understand it until it

Happens to them. Not their wives or sisters or daughters, but them.

I'm not advocating for raping the rapists. I'm just saying they don't get it, and won't until the crime happens to them.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Absoutly disgusting

There is no excuse for this.

[flvegan]

12. flvegan's Blackwater is just one Powerball win or serious donor away.

[Skittles]

14. sick bastards

[treestar]

16. That was scary

There was even on who had never committed rape but still said women want to do it for the money. A few of them who had done it but understood it was wrong.