Malaysian women fighting to retain basic rights and freedoms

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www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/172327

Whilst the West are busy fighting gender wars, it is easy to forget that women elsewhere are having to battle to retain basic rights that they have been accustomed to for generations.

What you are doing is nothing short of shifting the blame for sexual crimes on to women. They are the victims. Please understand that. Whatever a woman wears, says or does is never justification for having a sexual crime committed against her.

I have nothing but agreement for the letter. However, is this the link that you meant to post? (Asking because the rate of rape convictions and victim-blaming are live issues in the UK and elsewhere.)

Yes that was the link I meant to post.

It is a good letter responding to some silly but not atypical politician blaming women for the crimes they might cause men to commit.

Many Malaysian women I know are bright, educated and tolerant, used to living and working in a multi racial society. But slowly rights are being eroded though a religion-justified misogyny. In some way almost a direct parallel to the fight we have to retain our single sex spaces, and often using the same means:groups, mertings, journalism, legal processes.

Transgenderism and religious conservatism would seem to very different problems. But both are eroding the rights of women.

Im not 100% sure of the point I am wanting to make. I just did not want women elsewhere in the world to be forgotten.

not sure your OP makes sense. the Senator's proposal was laughed at, but to say that women have had these rights for generations is nonsense.

the point being that women do not have such a right because the reality is in many places it's more about rape avoidance by women than telling men not to be rapists.

so such a right has never existed.