This is from Teen Vogue too.
A school in Texas is reportedly reevalutating the dress code after a male got in trouble for wearing makeup to school. The student at Shadow Creek High School was sent to in-school suspension because the makeup he was wearing violated the Alvin Independent School District's dress code which states, "Boys may not wear make-up." (LET THE BOY WEAR WHATEVER HE WANTS!)
The boy's friend Jasmine Richards said "he was asked whether he would like to remove the makeup or go to ISS (In school suspnsion) and he said he refused to take off the makeup." Jasmine was miffed enough by the unequal treatment to create a change.org petition urging the school to change the dress code, and not jus the makeup part." (THANK YOU JASMINE!)
Okay so here's the problem: Dress Code supports rape culture. I'm going to go through the rapes that happened at schools.
2009 Richmond High School Gang Rape: On October 24th 2009 a 15 year old students was on her way back from a school ball. Her father wanted to pick her up, when a classmate persuaded her to come with him to the picnic area of their school. There, six men and boys were waiting who started to beat, rape, and humiliate the girl for around two hours.
Several witnesses came, saw what was happening, but didn't help according to reports. Instead, they filmed the scenario and send sms to other classmates. After the attack, the victim was left unconscious on the picnic place and had to be flown to hospital by helicopter.
One of the rapists was the 19 year old Manuel Ortega, who was an ex-pupil of Richmond High School. The 15 year old victim often got teased because of her style and her nature, which weren't "hip" enough.
2016 Yuyun Gang rape, Sumatra, Indonesia: On April 2nd 2016, a 14 year old student from a small village in Sumatra, Indonesia was on her way back home from school, when someone pulled her into the forest. There, 14 young men were waiting who alledgedly raped and then killed Yuyun.
Her corpse was found naked and knotted. Her offenders were all under 18. They drank palm liquor before they committed the crime. While the instance didn't get much media atrtention, was it the feminist lobby in Indonesia, who called attention for this case, stating that it was only one out of many rapes that already happened in 2016. They request a harder draft pills against sexual violence to women.
2012 Delhi gang rape: It was the December 16th of 2012 when 23 year old physiotherapy student Jyoti and her boyfriend were on their way back home from the cinema. Almost simoultaneously in Delhi, a group of six mun stole an empty bus. They were driving aimlessly around in the city, when they saw Jyoti and her boyfriend waiting for a bus. The two went in, not knowing that it was not a normal bus, when the six men first beat Jyoti's boyfriend up and then brutally raped her.
After that, they tried to pull out her intestines with an iron rod and threw her and her boyfriend half dead on the road. The act caused a worldwide shock and triggered a debate about sexual violence against women in India and their role in society. People and especially women organizsed mass protests and demanded to hang the six rapists. Four of them were sentenced to death, but appealed against the judgement. The leader of the group was found hung in his cell in March 2013. In 2015, one of the rapist got released, because during the time of the crime he was an underage.
2012 Oksana Makar Gang Rape, Ukraine: Oksana Makar was only 18 years old, when three young men brutally raped her on April 2nd 2012. When she threatened them to report the offence to the police, they choked Oksana until they were thinking she is dead. After that, the three men wrapped the young girl in a cloth, dragged her into a deserted building site and set her on fire. A passerby spotted her and reached out for help.
Oksana died three weeks later due to her heavy injuries. Almost 55% of her skin was burnt and doctors had to amputate both her feet and the right arm. The case caused a huge public indignation in the Ukraine. All three perpetrators were caught by the police, but two of them quickly got released. The reason: it turned out that they were the sons of high officials of the regional administration.
Oksana's mom in the meanwhile showed a video of her suffering daughter on the internet. She had the sympathy of the Ukrainians on her side, who donated blood and raised money for Okasana.
Gang rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena: Two teenage girls from Texas were gang raped and murdered on June 24th, 1993. 15 year old Jennifer Lee Ertman and 16 year old Elizabeth Christine Pena were on their way back home from a party, when they decided to take a shortcut accross the tracks to avoid being back at home after the curfew. Here, beer drinking gang members noticed them, captured the girls and raped them several times.
Once the six men realized that the girls could recognize them, they decided to kill them.
Jennifer and Elizabeth got strangled to death and were found four days later in the park. Peter Anthony Cant, who was the leader of the gang, was executed in August 2010 with lethal inejction. It was his brother, who told the police about the crime after hearing that the youngest members of the gang boasted how much fun they had with the girls. Two other gang members got executed in 2006 and 2008.
Two of three left prersecutors got sentenced to death for lifetime, while the youngest one (who was only 14 at the time of the crime) was sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment.
2006 Qatif Gang Rape, Saudi Arabia: The 18 year old victim of the Qatif gang rape met in a car with her former boyfriend by the end of 2006. According to her she met him to get back a photo of her as she was already engaged to someone else during this time. But her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and after thereupon, she got raped by seven different men.
After the incident, the "Qatif Girl", who belongs to a Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 90 lashes, as she had met a man without another male relative. On November 13th 2007, the penalty was aggravated in an appeal to 200 strokes and six months in prison also because the girl turned to the public to get international attention for the case. The judges therefor said, that the rape wouldn't have happened, if the young woman wouldn't have met with the man alone.
In December 2007 Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah pardoned the girl.
2002 Mukhtara Mai Gang Rape, Pakistan: On June 22nd 2002 Mukhtara Mai got overwhelmed by several men in the house of the Mastoi family. They teared off her clothes and four of the fourteen men in the house raped the then 30 year old.
It's said, that the men had agreed on the rape in a Jirga, an assembly, as a punishment for Mukhtara and her family.
The background: Mukhtara's brother was suspected and accused by the Mastoi family of committing fornication with a Mastoi woman. Three members of Mastoi family in revenge sodomized and tortured Muhktara's brother.
The solution: Mukhtara's brother has to marry the same Mastoi girl he was alleged of being involved in fornication. Furthermore Mukhtara should marry one of the Mastois. But in the last minute, the Mastoi family decided to cancel the plan. To overcome the dispute and see the case as resolved the Mastoi family wanted Mukhtara Mai to come to their house in person and apologize for the whole incident.
By the time Mukhtara Mai with her father and maternal uncle arrived for the apology, an armed man with a 30-caliber pistol, forcibly took Mukhtara into a stable where she was gang raped. It is also reported that on the orders of Jirga (traditional assembly of leaders), she was paraded naked in front of hundreds of onlookers.
Mukhtara indicated her tormentors, but until now only one of them is in jail, while all the other ones are free. The now 39 year old is married to a policeman and had written a book about her internationally well known and unique case.
Rape and murder of Anene Booysen: Anene Booysen (Octobber 30th, 1995 - February 2nd, 2013) was a 17-year-old girl who was found by a security guard the morning after she had been gang-raped and disemboweled by having her abdomen slit open at a construction site in Bredasdorp, in the Westerb caoem South Africa on February 2nd, 2013; she was still alive, but died later in the day. She managed to identify one of her attackers before her death. Johannes Kana was convicted for the crime, and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Booysen and Reeva Steenkamp, both young South African women killed in 2013, were named SA Persons of the year 2013 by the Daily Maverick.
I hope all of these victim's families are doing okay.
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