a few quotes from rape culture

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Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta denied the charges.[92][93] On 10 January, their lawyer, Manohar Lal Sharma, said in a media interview that the victims are responsible for the assault because they should not have been using public transportation and, as an unmarried couple, they should not have been on the streets at night. He went on to say: "Until today I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady. Even an underworld don would not like to touch a girl with respect."[94] He also called the male victim "wholly responsible" for the incident because he "failed in his duty to protect the woman".[94]

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An author for the South Asia Analysis Group explained the protests as expressions of middle-class angst arising out of a collapse of a social contract between them and the liberal state.[126] New Delhi has the highest number of sex crimes among India's major cities. Police figures show a rape reported on average every 18 hours; reported rape cases rose by nearly 17 percent between 2007 and 2011.[127] Only one of 706 rape cases filed in Delhi in 2012 ended in conviction.[64] Between 16 December and 4 January, 501 calls for harassment and 64 calls for rape were recorded by the Delhi Police, but only four were followed up by inquiries.[124] The regional program director for U.N. Women South Asia said, "There are rape cases in almost all cities and rural areas, where the victim dies immediately because of the brutality of the crime ... This time, it was like, 'Wake up.'"[128]
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Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, said that she did not have the courage to meet the victim and described Delhi as a "rape capital" in interviews.[133] She said that senior police officials should be held accountable for the failure to take adequate measures to stop such incidents and called for "immediate setting up of fast-track courts to try rape cases and to get justice in a time-bound manner".[134]
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Speaking out against the protesters, president Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee argued that the women protesters did not appear to him to be students saying,"What's basically happening in Delhi is a lot like Egypt or elsewhere, where there's something called the Pink Revolution, which has very little connection with ground realities. In India, staging candle-lit marches, going to discotheques...I can see many beautiful women among them – highly dented-painted...[but] I have grave doubts whether they're students..."[138] Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu provoked criticism from the public[139] by saying that the victim was also to blame for her own assault because she could have stopped the attack if she had "chanted God's name and fallen at the feet of the attackers"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape