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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
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Tore, there are places that have entirely different conceptions of rape and women's role in society, and this has very real and very practical consequences. It startles me that people are ignorant of this, and it is dangerous to react to this differences with ethnocentric catch-all phrases such as "misogynistic", "sexist", "backwards", etc.
In regards to Dubai - I would've thought it's differences with the west would've been rather well known.
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Well, I happen to strongly disagree with their values regarding this and I don't think it is so dangerous to express that here, even with words like misogynistic. Were it up to me, Dubais laws would be changed so that their society doesn't further victimize rape victims.