9-in-10 Thai Rape Victims Knew Their Attackers: UN Report

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

 

BANGKOK — Rape victims in Thailand and Vietnam face discrimination stemming from stereotypes and a hostile justice system, according to a UN study launched Wednesday.

 

Representatives from the police and Supreme Court were on hand to discuss the report, the first ever of its kind and carried out by three UN organizations led by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, aka UN Women.

 

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There has always been unjustified violence against women; as far back as I can remember. But I believe the social media and Internet have escalated rapes, abuse and bad attitudes against women in general.

Nowadays with the Internet, porn has been given easy access to all, even children, that can gain access to the most perverted, sickest material within seconds. A lot of it gives the semblance that all women are basically sluts, enjoy being dominated, enjoy having violence perpetrated against them, enjoy being sexually abused and raped.

Here’s the problem; young people that watch online porn, many do and can become heavily influenced and addicted to it just like some become addicted to facebook whereas it becomes a part of the mainstream of their lives, will actually start to believe that women as depicted in porn videos really are like this and that it’s acceptable to violate them because those are genuine female traits. This can affect people’s behaviours towards women, having been influenced and manipulated online considering men should always play a dominating role towards women, have power over them that in many cases involves violent abuse.

 Here’s another example; here in Thailand the people love their TV Thai soap operas. They are of similar styles to the American TV series Dallas and Dynasty, whereas all the people are rich and powerful, live in huge mansions and drive about in Mercedes. In those shows the gays are always portrayed as fun joke characters and the women always have to be subservient to the men. Quite often the men have more than one woman on the go and the whole plot revolves around the women fighting over who gets the man. Rape is acceptable in those shows although discretely done the audience knows what’s going on behind the room’s closed doors.

I am not saying that the Internet is entirely to blame. But it should still be taken into account that the Internet plays a big part in this problem. I wonder; when will people sit up and listen and admit the worldwide media (Internet) has created a huge social problem within societies? How far should society push the limits of acceptability before it’s said; enough is enough, it must stop now?

Have you looked at the Internet recently? It's not just bad, it's very bad. Who's looking at all this stuff? Not Thaivisa members I'm sure.

The majority of rapes in the US are committed by a friend or relative of the rape victim, nothing new about these stats.

46 minutes ago, nausea said:

Have you looked at the Internet recently? It's not just bad, it's very bad. Who's looking at all this stuff? Not Thaivisa members I'm sure.

Don't be so sure !

Here of course they do its either the father, brother or uncle.

2 hours ago, nausea said:

Have you looked at the Internet recently? It's not just bad, it's very bad. Who's looking at all this stuff? Not Thaivisa members I'm sure.

Many women are creating their own stereotyping online. Don`t need to be a technological whizz kid to find them by the millions in seconds. I`m sure most of you know the right buttons to click to discover where all this action is happening online. Oh sorry forgot, they`re all victims, forced to do sex cams and porn.

sigh...

If the media is right are they all called Harvey .

16 hours ago, cyberfarang said:

There has always been unjustified violence against women; as far back as I can remember. But I believe the social media and Internet have escalated rapes, abuse and bad attitudes against women in general.

Nowadays with the Internet, porn has been given easy access to all, even children, that can gain access to the most perverted, sickest material within seconds. A lot of it gives the semblance that all women are basically sluts, enjoy being dominated, enjoy having violence perpetrated against them, enjoy being sexually abused and raped.

Here’s the problem; young people that watch online porn, many do and can become heavily influenced and addicted to it just like some become addicted to facebook whereas it becomes a part of the mainstream of their lives, will actually start to believe that women as depicted in porn videos really are like this and that it’s acceptable to violate them because those are genuine female traits. This can affect people’s behaviours towards women, having been influenced and manipulated online considering men should always play a dominating role towards women, have power over them that in many cases involves violent abuse.

 Here’s another example; here in Thailand the people love their TV Thai soap operas. They are of similar styles to the American TV series Dallas and Dynasty, whereas all the people are rich and powerful, live in huge mansions and drive about in Mercedes. In those shows the gays are always portrayed as fun joke characters and the women always have to be subservient to the men. Quite often the men have more than one woman on the go and the whole plot revolves around the women fighting over who gets the man. Rape is acceptable in those shows although discretely done the audience knows what’s going on behind the room’s closed doors.

I am not saying that the Internet is entirely to blame. But it should still be taken into account that the Internet plays a big part in this problem. I wonder; when will people sit up and listen and admit the worldwide media (Internet) has created a huge social problem within societies? How far should society push the limits of acceptability before it’s said; enough is enough, it must stop now?

Quite so.

But the thing is, it was there already, all of it.

But now it is more visible.

Repression is not the answer.

Education is.

Porn has been around since time immemorial. It’s just that now the delivery and conveyancing methods are sophisticated. 

Wow... it didn’t take long for the internet to get blamed, (yet we all know it was made for porn)

 

this story is about 9 out of 10 woman being raped by family members... but more, it’s about how authorities deal with the issue, from victim blaming and disbelieve at the outset, thru to the appalling way victims are treated throughout the process, by the authorities that should be protecting them.

 

more light needs shedding on this.... education is required... open reporting without fear of being marked as a wanton.... dignity for the victim... appropriate punishments ( and national broadcast of same)

 

drag the carpet outside and burn it, to prevent anything else from being swept under the damn thing

I believe that rape happens involving family members all over the world. This is not a Thailand

thing or just  an Asian thing. Happens here in Canada and the USA, Europe, South America,  Africa

Australia, China, Japan, Middle East, Russia, basically countries, from, A to Z ...

Geezer

If Thai soap operas are any indication of the realities of Thai society, then this should come to no surprise.  
I don't watch Thai soaps, but the wife keeps them running on the living room TV in the evening.  The last impression I have of a Thai soap while walking through the living room is seeing a Thai guy straddling a Thai woman on a bed and choking her. 

I'm assuming if little nong Somchai has a steady diet mummy's evening TV, he'll understand exactly how to treat women when he's an adult.    Yeah, no surprise at all. 

34 minutes ago, connda said:

The last impression I have of a Thai soap while walking through the living room is seeing a Thai guy straddling a Thai woman on a bed and choking her. 

Sounds like an exaggeration, but so very true.

Men dominating subservient females , Hi-so women screaming at Lo-so male and female staff.

8 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Sounds like an exaggeration, but so very true.

Men dominating subservient females , Hi-so women screaming at Lo-so male and female staff.

It was not an exaggeration by any mean ratcatcher.  I stopped in the middle of the living room and watched.  I found it really, really disturbing.  Hence the post.