According to a survey last week, 65.1 percent of Brazilians think if a woman is “dressed provocatively” she deserves to be “attacked and and raped"
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prayformojo (aka mayhem)
Apr 3 '14, 05:08
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There are few statistics more jarring than this one: According to a survey released late last week, 65.1 percent of Brazilians think if a woman is “dressed provocatively” she deserves to be “attacked and raped.” Here’s another one: 59 percent of the 3,810 respondents across 212 cities said if a Brazilian woman “knew how to behave” there would be fewer rapes.
And then there’s this whopper: More than two-thirds of the respondents were women.
News of the Institute for Applied Economic Research survey fueled an existing movement and unleashed a tidal wave of new outrage. It crested with the hashtag #ninguemMereceSerEstuprada — I don’t deserve to be raped — and crashed across all forms of social media. Many tweeted photographs as emotive as they were triumphant. Depicting women in various states of undress, they juxtaposed sensuality with strength. Some women were topless, expressions austere, clutching a poster condemning the survey’s results.
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