Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks

PeterCH said:
Coming from the SAME producers who brought you "Rape a child to cure AIDS",
now comes the sequel, "Rape a Lesbian to cure her of her homosexuality".
Anyone want to do the rest of the Hollywood style Promo?
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Didn't they have a much earlier hit with... "If it's not locked or properly secured, it is yours for the taking!"???
 
timgaul said:
And the world watches, viva 2010! :rolleyes:
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homophobic attacks take place all over the world, the largest religion in the world attacks homosexuality verbally, publicly.

im not giving a reason for this to be acceptable but why whenever something like this happens do these negative tribe members pop-up with their "oh noes! with the world cup", "fsck zuma" words???
 
The_Pumpkin_King said:
homophobic attacks take place all over the world, the largest religion in the world attacks homosexuality verbally, publicly.
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Christianity?

Yes they attack the act of men having sex with other men. However, they don't condone any violence towards anyone and in fact just the opposite, people who commit violence in the name of Christianity are in fact heretics.

A Catholic who murders a pro-Abortion doctor is a heretic and a murderer.

Here instead we have a group culture, fostered by a might is right mentality and high levels of testosterone and guys who find that they have little power in their ordinary lives, hence they have to get respect back from a helpless victim. Mob mentality.
It's hardly a fair comparison.

im not giving a reason for this to be acceptable but why whenever something like this happens do these negative tribe members pop-up with their "oh noes! with the world cup", "fsck zuma" words???
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Are you saying that people who belong to a church which finds homosexual sex sinful should not condemn acts of violence against homosexual or any other people?
 
PeterCH said:
Christianity?

Yes they attack the act of men having sex with other men. However, they don't condone any violence towards anyone and in fact just the opposite, people who commit violence in the name of Christianity are in fact heretics.

A Catholic who murders a pro-Abortion doctor is a heretic and a murderer.

Here instead we have a group culture, fostered by a might is right mentality and high levels of testosterone and guys who find that they have little power in their ordinary lives, hence they have to get respect back from a helpless victim. Mob mentality.
It's hardly a fair comparison.



Are you saying that people who belong to a church which finds homosexual sex sinful should not condemn acts of violence against homosexual or any other people?
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i was questioning his reason for attacking the country when a few idiots do something stupid. my use of religion was an example that homophobia does happen everywhere. the attack itself was disgusting and pathetic.
 
Kim, let me explain, it's one idiot in the group that has doubts about his sexuality, in that he finds himself looking more at guys than girls. So he decides to change this by raping women, and also convinces his other BBF's to help convert these women, when in fact he should just accept what he is and act like a normal guy.
 
The_Pumpkin_King said:
i was questioning his reason for attacking the country when a few idiots do something stupid. my use of religion was an example that homophobia does happen everywhere. the attack itself was disgusting and pathetic.
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but what causes it?
completely absent in nature and in pre-abrahamic cultures
 
Garyvdh said:
Didn't they have a much earlier hit with... "If it's not locked or properly secured, it is yours for the taking!"???
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I think that was the sequel to "Burn it, break it. Steal it, take it.", which led to the highly controversial series called "crisis, what crisis?" :D
 
Don't think we will have many lesbians at the WC...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...an_Lesbians_Are_Being_Raped_To_Correct_Them__

Lesbians Face 'Correction' Rape In SA

Lesbians in South Africa are being dragged off the street and raped to "correct" them, it has been claimed.


Sky News has found evidence of widespread abuse against the lesbian community - resulting in a new trend of so-called "corrective rape".
We went to the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town and spoke to a group of women who say they live in fear of their lives.
All of them said they know someone who has been violently dragged off the streets and raped because they had come out as a lesbian.
Funeka Solidaat told me she had been attacked on two occasions - on the second she was raped.
She said the men covered their faces with balaclavas but that she had been repeatedly threatened with rape in the township.


She believed it was only a matter of time before it happened - and then it did.
But what shocked her even more, she said, was the attitude of the police. She said she was made to feel like "a laughing stock" when she reported the crime.
She said the police did not even bother to finish taking a statement from her.
She was part of a group of women we met at a safe house in Khayelitsha township. As they talked it became clear the so-called motive for the attack was to "correct" them.
Desire Dudu told us she had come out as a lesbian but in her view in South African society you risk your life if you make your sexuality clear.
We went to Soweto, South Africa's biggest township, to gauge the views of men towards lesbians in society.


It is a huge sprawling township in Johannesburg.
Although there is a progressive post-apartheid black middle class in South Africa, we were told the views of the men we spoke to were reflective of the masses.
One man roared with laughter and told me they should be "whipped". "There is no mention of lesbians in the bible," he said.
They told me they approved of lesbians being raped to "correct" them and to "teach them a lesson".
They said "women should behave like women" and this was a way of "teaching" them that.
Campaigners say although South Africa has a wide-ranging constitution, attitudes need to change within the police and the government if lesbians are ever going to be able to live safely and openly within the townships.

The townships have always been the voice of black South Africans.

But the lesbian community is a section of society which considers itself ostracised and abused in a country which struggled to hard to define itself as a land of equality.
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Not the most objective report I've seen on the subject - but we can expect a lot more of these exposes as we get closer to the influx.
 
According to Zuma, everyone has the right to practice their customs :o
 
AH but only if it fits in with certain views... Selective freedom according to ruling party "traditions"?

Same as killing the bull by torture, despite our anti cruelty to animal laws.
 
As the article shows, it's basically all in the townships. I doubt there would be any problem for lesbian WC tourists. There isn't even a problem for middle class people who aren't in the townships. No way a tourist is going to be randomly identified as a lesbian and pulled off the streets in the cities and tourists sopts.

But it is something to expose, I'm sure "modern" tourists will be shocked.
 
Well in the township? is the influx going to the township too?

Something that bothers me with a lot of these articles that people use to paint a picture of SA with is this. What is the real SA? And then.. how do we look at other countries? I mean when we looking at perhaps even the UK, do we look at their slum area's where most are unemployed by choice or the trailer parks in the US??
 
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