Corrective Rape

[ToJesusMyHeart]

I can't even.

 

 

Crisis in South Africa: The shocking practice of 'corrective rape' - aimed at 'curing' lesbians

 

"Mvuleni Fana was walking down a quiet alleyway in Springs – 30 miles east of Johannesburg – on her way home from football practice one evening when four men surrounded her and dragged her back to the football stadium. She recognised her attackers. One by one, the men raped her, beating her unconscious and leaving her for dead.

 

The next morning, Mvuleni came round, bleeding, battered, in shock, and taunted by one overriding memory – the last thing they said to her before she passed out: "After everything we're going to do to you, you're going to be a real woman, and you're never going to act like this again."

 

Corrective rape is a hate crime wielded to convert lesbians to heterosexuality – an attempt to 'cure' them of being gay. The term was coined in South Africa in the early 2000s when charity workers first noticed an influx of such attacks. But despite recognition and international coverage, corrective rape in the region is escalating in severity, according to Clare Carter, the photographer behind these images. This is amid a backdrop of parts of the country "becoming more homophobic", as one recent victim asserts.

 

Compared to many of South Africa's victims, Mvuleni was lucky: she survived. At least 31 women in the past 15 years did not. In 2007, to cite one incident, Sizakele Sigasa, a women's and gay rights activist, and her friend Salone Massooa, were outside a bar when a group of men started heckling and calling them tomboys. The women were gang raped, tortured, tied up with their underwear and shot in the head. Executed. No one was ever convicted.

 

[...]

 

Before leaving South Africa, Carter went to a taxi rank near Pietermaritzburg where she was told there were men who admit to corrective rape. She filmed them.

 

"If we want to finish lesbians and gays they must be forcefully raped," says one, grinning at the camera. "A man must go back to his manhood. Women must be women. She must be ready and willing to have sex."

 

"They must be raped so that their gay and lesbian behaviour can come out," adds another.

 

The third raises his voice, points two fingers at his temple and concludes: "This gay and lesbian thing must end. I say bang bang bang!"

 

 

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/crisis-in-south-africa-the-shocking-practice-of-corrective-rape--aimed-at-curing-lesbians-9033224.html

[Selah]

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

I am homophobic to a degree but not totally, but would never rape anyone. Rape is wrong. This is a horrible story and it makes me sad. :( Right intention to convert but wrong application, very wrong application, and perhaps would turn the homosexual women into anti men homosexual women.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Tab'le De'Bah-Rye

[ToJesusMyHeart]

A friend pointed out that her children's names are beautiful...perhaps the only beautiful thing about this horrible, horrible, unspeakable crime. 

[ChristinaTherese]

Those names make me really want to know more about the woman. I mean, what woman would name children who came from such a horrible crime Happiness and Blessing? I don't know the culture behind names in South Africa, but it reminds me of the passages where children are given names in the Old Testament....

 

Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

Yeah, what a miracle the children weren't aborted.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Tab'le De'Bah-Rye

[PhuturePriest]

Let's rape her and almost beat her to death. That will make her love men and heterosexual sex more!

[CrossCuT]

What people should do instead is just become homosexual for a week. Show the gays how easy it is to switch.

[NotreDame]

I think South African just has a rape crisis in general.  I remember the reports of that South Africans raped babies and children because they thought sex with a virgin would cure aids:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/29/southafrica.aids

 

I'm personally a bit skeptical about these individual reports (curing aids, curing lesbianism, etc.) since Western Journalists usually don't have a clue what's actually going on in-country, but rape and aids do seem to be major problems in South Africa and the continent in general.

 

 

 

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

Idek how to respond to this.

[Semper Catholic]

I am homophobic to a degree but not totally, but would never rape anyone. Rape is wrong. This is a horrible story and it makes me sad. :( Right intention to convert but wrong application, very wrong application, and perhaps would turn the homosexual women into anti men homosexual women.

How am I "phishy" and this guy is a "chummy commoner". Some of the things you write induce skin crawling.

[Semper Catholic]

I think South African just has a rape crisis in general. I remember the reports of that South Africans raped babies and children because they thought sex with a virgin would cure aids:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/29/southafrica.aids

I'm personally a bit skeptical about these individual reports (curing aids, curing lesbianism, etc.) since Western Journalists usually don't have a clue what's actually going on in-country, but rape and aids do seem to be major problems in South Africa and the continent in general.

America has a rape crisis.

[Selah]

I am homophobic to a degree but not totally, but would never rape anyone. Rape is wrong. This is a horrible story and it makes me sad. :( Right intention to convert but wrong application, very wrong application, and perhaps would turn the homosexual women into anti men homosexual women.

 

To quote Nash from Radio Dead Air:

 

WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH YOU

[NotreDame]

America has a rape crisis.

 

Not since you left.
 

[Semper Catholic]

Not since you left.

Cool rape joke bro. Enjoy being part of the problem.