He says he is not a rape apologist, however his personal interviews betray him.
Imran Khan says he isn’t a rape apologist. But each time he speaks to the international press, he comes throughout as a rape apologist. We surprise why.
It may’t be that his phrases are being mistranslated — he’s clearly talking in English. He has been educated at Oxford, after going to premiere academic establishments in Pakistan, and considers England his “second home” so he positively is aware of the language.
It may’t be that he doesn’t perceive the query, particularly when it’s put to him so clearly. Might it’s that he has a skewed understanding of what it means to be a rape apologist? We predict so.
Being a rape apologist implies that you present justifications for rape or assault. There aren’t any ifs and buts in terms of it — rapists rape individuals, victims don’t do something to ‘invite’ assault.
Imran began off sturdy in his interview with the New Yorker — “How can anyone blame women for rape? Tell me, how can any sensible person ever make such a stupid comment? Look, the rapist is always to be blamed. Always. Simple. Full stop.”
He mentioned crime statistics and mentioned, “In the case of a woman getting raped, she’s marked for life”. “But even worse is when children get abused; that stays with them for the rest of their life. The ideas that came forward were, one, that we must bring down the level of temptation in our society, because you have a lot of frustrated people. Now, this is coming from civil society. And secondly, how do we educate children in schools to stop this child abuse?”
Sure, he used the last word buzzword when speaking about sexual abuse — temptation. As if the particular person being assaulted is at fault due to the implication that the assaulter was powerless to withstand mentioned temptation.
“Well, the temptation is not women walking the streets with less clothes. Temptation is social media. On our mobile phones children now have access to information,” mentioned the previous premier. “But, at the same time, the level of the pornographic stuff on a mobile phone, which is available to children of seven and eight years old — never in human history have children been exposed to that.”
That’s all effective — a bit misguided as a result of the problem has extra to do with our society and its emphasis on policing girls than seven-year-olds with cell phones however nonetheless effective. However the actual kicker was when he was requested about his earlier sexist feedback about journalist Gharida Farooqi through which he mentioned she was asking to be harassed on-line as she was “invading male-dominated spaces”.
“No. No. No. It wasn’t out of context. Look, in our society, we were … it was just in one particular rally where they were all men, and she was right in the middle of this male crowd. It’s just that … I mean, anyone who knows Pakistani society, or most sorts of societies like India or Pakistan — if you put yourself in that position, you are going to be vulnerable. It’s just common sense. Yes, the men are to be blamed if they do anything. But also it works two ways, you should all … in our society, normally, people would avoid putting themselves in that position. It’s as simple as that,” mentioned our sage former prime minister.
“Isaac, we have brilliant women journalists in this country. They are doing a great job. But they don’t have to put themselves in positions — and let me just say, it was a specific situation I was talking about, because we actually tried to get her out of the situation.”
The concept that a girl doing her job is “putting herself” in any form of place that leads to her getting harassed is laughable. The main focus shouldn’t be on “get[ting] her our of the situation,” it must be on stopping that scenario from being created. Eradicating girls from public areas isn’t the reply, Mr Khan. He simply overlooks the truth that her job requires her to be in tough conditions, identical to her male colleagues. However since she’s a feminine, she should take precaution as a result of the lads in our society clearly can’t be trusted.
Each time our esteemed former prime minister speaks to worldwide publications, he digs a deeper gap for himself. He compounds his sexist remarks with much more baffling sexist remarks in an try to absolve himself of the blame being heaped on his head from his earlier sexist remarks, making a unending cycle of sexist remarks and rape apologies. The straightforward — and slightly apparent — answer right here can be to only cease speaking. Cease making extra sexist feedback, cease commenting on what girls ought to and shouldn’t do and cease making an attempt to police girls.
No lady is asking for it or inviting it or placing themselves ready of any type which might end in rape. The way in which to fight rape is to cease rapists, not cease girls from doing their jobs.
Whereas individuals could argue that we’re belabouring the purpose and nitpicking, the F-9 park rape is illustrative of what occurs when males imagine girls are placing themselves in harmful ‘positions’. The 2 males who raped a girl in Islamabad’s F-9 park on Thursday instructed the girl, after raping her, “not come to the park at this time”. She was at a centrally positioned park at 8pm within the capital of our nation. To not point out the Islamabad Police’s answer as of now could be to request individuals to remain across the well-lit areas.
We could also be bored with speaking about Imran Khan’s sexist feedback however the reality of the matter is, when males like him — with a large following — say issues like this, it emboldens rapists and assaulters to perpetuate acts of violence towards girls after which justify it by saying they put themselves in a ‘position’. It lets different males suppose the ladies of their houses should be locked up or are inviting assault.
It could be tiring and irritating to repeatedly remind Imran Khan of how he retains placing his foot in his mouth, however so long as girls are raped and harassed on this nation and other people justify it, we are going to proceed to name out politicians and public figures who’re rape apologists.
