Exactly Mimi! Actually, a report I remember when I was a student in Canada found that around 80 per cent of sexual assaults were intimate partner assaults: ie someone you knew and trusted, a boyfriend, friend, husband, etc.
that said, in the Arab world, if someone you know and trusts rapes you, it's not considered rape. And it's blamed, legally, on the woman. Not to mention archaic standards of 'proof' to 'prove' it was rape.
As Qatar develops, women's equality and rights are going to become more and more important: if the country wants to be taken seriously as a modern state, it needs that. they do a lot of good things, sure, but this attitude needs to change. Slutwalks and very vivid displays would help i think.
So, who wants to organize the first Qatar Slutwalk? :)
Exactly Mimi! Actually, a report I remember when I was a student in Canada found that around 80 per cent of sexual assaults were intimate partner assaults: ie someone you knew and trusted, a boyfriend, friend, husband, etc.
that said, in the Arab world, if someone you know and trusts rapes you, it's not considered rape. And it's blamed, legally, on the woman. Not to mention archaic standards of 'proof' to 'prove' it was rape.
As Qatar develops, women's equality and rights are going to become more and more important: if the country wants to be taken seriously as a modern state, it needs that. they do a lot of good things, sure, but this attitude needs to change. Slutwalks and very vivid displays would help i think.
So, who wants to organize the first Qatar Slutwalk? :)