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"Police in Swaziland will enforce a colonial law to stop women wearing miniskirts and other 'sexual' clothing."
"Women in Swaziland have been banned from wearing miniskirts and crop tops because they 'encourage rape' - and offenders face a six-month spell in jail.
Police in Swaziland, the last absolute monarchy in Africa and an incredibly conservative nation, have resurrected an archaic colonial criminal act from 1889 to stop women wearing clothes that expose their body.
Swazi police were responding to a march in the second city of Manzini last month by young women, some wearing miniskirts, who were seeking equal rights and safety.
In Swaziland women are legal minors and two-thirds of teenage girls have been victims of sexual assault, according to the South African Independent Online.
Police spokesperson Wendy Hleta warned: 'They will be arrested. 'The act of the rapist is made easy, because it would be easy to remove the half-cloth worn by the women.
'We do not encourage that women should be harmed, but at the same time people should note acceptable conduct of behaviour,' she said.
The ban also applies to low-slung jeans and tank tops. However, the 'indlamu' costume, a tiny beaded belt worn when young women dance for King Mswati topless and with their buttocks fully exposed, is permissible, authorities declared. Hleta said this apparel is permissible because police have no records of any maiden being raped while wearing the costume."
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…
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Victim blaming legislature: where the blame of a violent, heinous crime shifts from the perpetrator to the victim. Where a female victim can be jailed for six months while rapists are not persecuted and dealt with adequately by a rape apologist, biased justice system. This is out-right unacceptable.
"Women in Swaziland have been banned from wearing miniskirts and crop tops because they 'encourage rape' - and offenders face a six-month spell in jail.
Police in Swaziland, the last absolute monarchy in Africa and an incredibly conservative nation, have resurrected an archaic colonial criminal act from 1889 to stop women wearing clothes that expose their body.
Swazi police were responding to a march in the second city of Manzini last month by young women, some wearing miniskirts, who were seeking equal rights and safety.
In Swaziland women are legal minors and two-thirds of teenage girls have been victims of sexual assault, according to the South African Independent Online.
Police spokesperson Wendy Hleta warned: 'They will be arrested. 'The act of the rapist is made easy, because it would be easy to remove the half-cloth worn by the women.
'We do not encourage that women should be harmed, but at the same time people should note acceptable conduct of behaviour,' she said.
The ban also applies to low-slung jeans and tank tops. However, the 'indlamu' costume, a tiny beaded belt worn when young women dance for King Mswati topless and with their buttocks fully exposed, is permissible, authorities declared. Hleta said this apparel is permissible because police have no records of any maiden being raped while wearing the costume."
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…
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Victim blaming legislature: where the blame of a violent, heinous crime shifts from the perpetrator to the victim. Where a female victim can be jailed for six months while rapists are not persecuted and dealt with adequately by a rape apologist, biased justice system. This is out-right unacceptable.
Another episode of Wikipedia's thoughtless sexism
Recently, Wikipedia has saw fit to delete several pages relating to Scythian religion. The most notable casualties of this spiteful decision are Tabiti, which stands as the matriarch of the Scythian pantheon and its actual head according to Herodotus’ Histories, and Argimpasa, a rather iconic figure in the discussion of the matriarchal aspects of Scythian society.
The world’s leading encyclopaedia can afford to have articles about anal sex but not about important mythological female figures. And all because of spite.
The de facto reason for this deletion is a rather complex conflict between Wikipedia as a whole and me, and is pa
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PSA: Take Street Harassment Seriously!
Street Harassment: Is a Man Running Over a 14-Year Old Girl for Refusing Sex Serious Enough?
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Me, again. Time for another, "please take street harassment seriously" post.
Earlier this week a man in a car pulled up next to a 14-year old girl on a street in Florida and offered to pay her $200 to have sex with him. Some people would say that's a compliment. It's part of being out in society, learning to deal with people, navigating relationships between men and women. Or, at least that what many commenters on articles I write about street harassment think. That
Report: 3rd of women worldwide have been assaulted
According to the World Health Organization, "A third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women."
In a series of papers released on Thursday by the World Health Organisation and others, experts estimated nearly 40 per cent of women killed worldwide were murdered by an intimate partner. Being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.
"Violence against women is a global health problem of epidemic proportions," WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said in a statement.
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It is swaziland after all.
I don't wear that stuff because i prefer a more modest style on me, but women have the right to express themselves in any style they want, whether that is Victorian wear, in the nude, or cybergoth
I don't wear that stuff because i prefer a more modest style on me, but women have the right to express themselves in any style they want, whether that is Victorian wear, in the nude, or cybergoth