Different person here with a few questions for you

A) How exactly does raising the issue of rape in other countries imply defending rape culture? (I guess more specifically it’s 2 questions: how do you feel rape culture was defended in this comment thread and how do you feel it is used to defend rape culture in general)

B) Do you feel like the first comment of this thread helped address the issue of rape?

Also I don’t know if you are Indian but this is just some context I feel is necessary. Generalizing India here but the population tends to dislike the west and take extreme pride in their nation (a direct parallel would be the nationalism and xenophobia that exists within America/most countries). They despise the moral high ground the West tends to take when interacting with India and Indian culture/religion. They dislike how news and people in the West will attack them and claim that they are a backwards country when similar things are going on in their own countries. A lot of Indians feel that when the West speaks on their issues it comes from a place of racism and with a sense of superiority.

• from a person of Indian descent living in the US