We are angry about India but

But sometimes people have a tendency here to overlook things closer to home.

I certainly don't forget the violence which happens in any country, including Britain, but the thread to which this refers was about one specific case in India. I am equally appalled by what happens to women in Yemen, Saudi, South Africa................

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I don't forget, glass, and I expect a good number of other people don't forget either.

It's true we are outraged about the situation for women in India, but we do forget the violence that is happening every day to Women in this country.

Well said, greatnan.

And, yes, penstemmon, it is just as awful. I don't believe anyone has implied that it isn't. I do think that it is a good thing that this case in India has become an international news story though. It is only by educating (informing) people of what goes on that things change. Because the majority – decent people – then feel the need to do something to improve attitudes, which change in attitudes will then effect a change in behaviour, at least insofar as to reduce the number of appalling incidents.

Here, here.

Quite so, but I don't think we should not condemn the situation in India because that in Britain is also bad. I don't think one in four British men have committed rape and I am sure that the huge majority are just as appalled by it as women. Change will only come in India and the other countries which devalue women when a majority of the men are willing to speak out against their treatment. We are often told that the oppression can be laid at the door of a few 'extremists', but they could not impose their will if the majority of men resisted it. The powerful rarely give up their power until forced.