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Related: About this forumThe Brutality of ‘Corrective Rape’
Just as disturbing is a practice called corrective rape the rape of gay men and lesbians to cure them of their sexual orientation. In one of the few cases to attract press attention, in 2008, Eudy Simelane, a lesbian, was gang-raped and stabbed to death. Her naked body was dumped in a stream in the Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. A soccer player training to be a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, she was targeted because of her sexual orientation.
In 2011, Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, was raped, and stabbed multiple times with glass shards. Her skull was shattered. Her eyes were reportedly gouged from their sockets. Ms. Nogwaza had been seen earlier that evening in a bar with a female friend.
I read of these killings and began to research them. I was shocked by the contradiction between South Africas law it was the fifth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage and what was actually happening on the streets. With horrific apartheid in recent memory, the countrys 1996 Constitution committed itself to equality for the entire nation. But the new constitution could not erase deeply held biases and even hatred toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. If anything, the extension of formal legal protections exacerbated some peoples worst homophobic inclinations.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/26/opinion/26corrective-rape.html
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Torture, rape, murder. What justifies this? Religion? Politics?
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,968 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)that I suspect there are multiple causes. Extracting eyeballs and inserting shards of glass into another person's body is so hateful that I have a hard time understanding it.
I don't really know what I'm trying to say. I guess I'm just upset by the acts described in article in the OP.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)are threatened by what they perceive as any diminution of their total preeminence, i.e. dominance over women (straight and gay) and gay men, their thin veneer of civilization just melts and they do whatever they sense they can get away with in order to assert their "authority."
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)BainsBane
(53,016 posts)They think they are curing homosexuality.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)They're fucked up folks.
CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)even after reading Mother Petrie's comment above. Which I think is spot on, but I still do not grasp this horror.
BainsBane
(53,016 posts)the man to rape her daughter. Truly horrific.