Indian Court rules groping a child through clothes isn't sexual assault

[CumbrianLefty]

Atlas keeps telling me this is a civilized country we should embrace.

If having horrible courts means a country isn't civilized, we Americans very much live in a glass house.

I'm talking about the people doing the raping and sexual assaulting.

To state the obvious retort, these things don't also happen in the US as well??

[CumbrianLefty]

India just have different take on these matters

See

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sc-lets-off-rape-accused-after-he-agrees-to-marry-complainant-in-6-months-101613005573547.html

"SC lets off rape accused after he agrees to marry complainant in 6 months"

The entire definition of rape is different in many states in India.  There, if a man convinces a women to have sexual relationships with him under a promise to marry her but then does not carry out this promise that is considered rape.  Because this widens the definition of rape you can undo a conviction of rape if such a man does then marry the women even if it was through violence versus false pretenses of marrying said women.

BTW this standard seems to be the same as third wave feminism.  Back the early 1990s in college I happen to have sat at a lunch table with a leading feminist leader on campus.  She claimed to me that 1/4 of women students have been raped.  I rejected such numbers but realized after some discussion with her that her definition of rape includes voluntary sexual relations but if somehow the couple broke up the women can retroactively claim rape.  When I read about the Indian definition of rape years later I was like "wow, India is really carrying out the third wave feminist agenda"

All that I can say to that, is that I have never known any "feminist" who would make such a claim.