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How to Meet / Interview Rape Victims in India?
05-01-2013, 02:45 AM
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You are basing this documentary on a false assumption - that it is the sexualisation of women that is the root of the problem, whereas I believe that the problem is the suppression of sexuality, whereby taboos blow up in a most brutal and criminal fashion. The worst rapes always seem to occur where the local laws and conventions against sexuality are at their strictest. You'd never hear of this sort of thing going on in Denmark or the Netherlands!

There must be a certain element of shame and violation of family honour when a woman is raped in these places. Gaining their confidence is necessary before you can even start to ask questions. I don't know if there are women's refuges in India, but while using just these people as subjects might give the wrong impression about the nature of victims (that they are assertive and quite capable of organising themselves against male oppression), you might find some volunteers to help the less approachable victims and their families to gain confidence, and let you conduct an impartial interview. Your best ally might actually be men - boyfriends, husbands, fathers and brothers of victims - men who deeply love their women and suffer almost as much as the women themselves, because they felt they could have done more to protect them.

Also when interviewing a rapist, you must not go in there with a self-righteous condemning attitude if you are to get useful material out of them. Best to appear friendly and sympathetic, and hopefully they will open up more. Leave it to the audience to do the judging.
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[] - Betty - 05-01-2013, 02:14 AM
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