So rape is “teaching” now?Appalling.  
I don’t know if South Africans have the same attitude that we’ve heard from Uganda, that gayness is a product of colonialism.  But I think it’s pretty clear that it is homophobia, not gayness, that is the product of colonialism.  I’m a long way from being an expert on African culture, but I’ve read enough to know that gayness was accepted and even welcomed in a lot of native societies.  One of the charges the British leveled against the Mau Maus, as justification for colonial rule, was that they “practiced” homosexuality and even recruited indoctrinated young boys into that “vice.”  
The attitude that raping someone will somehow change her sexual orientation is a manifestation of willful ignorance, not to say swinishness.  And it came from Western, Christian colonial powers, along with most of the other myths used to justify anti-gay violence.

Kinda Like Our “Ex-Gay Therapists”Many of our male “ex-gay therapists” believe raping (Chris Austin), seducing and/or fondling (Richard Cohen) their male “ex-gay clients” will…..uuuhhh……make them straight and set them on the road to heterosexuality!

This has been going on with no comment from most US organisationsbecause, after all, it is only Lesbians in another country, right?

And this is not about “conversion”this is about power, as the methodology proves.
Castrate a few of the known rapists for deterrence and the boys might reconsider…but I am not proposing this because we must talk nicely, right..

oh come on, you’re surprised?they want to kill LGBT peoples just because of who they are.
Why would we be surprised they feel they can utilize the body however they want before the killing?
I would never, ever, ever go to most of Africa, Jamaica, or any of the other savage, virally genocidal anti-LGBT areas of the globe.  
And I would never give any support, financially or otherwise, to help anyone there unless it was specifically to help LGBT peoples.  Screw the rest of ‘em.

Rape is a way of life…Seriously, have people not followed what’s going on in South Africa? Rape is endemic to almost ever facet of life there. One in four men openly admits they have raped someone and 1/3rd of the women polled have been raped within the last year.
This isn’t a GLBT issue as much as it is that rape is a major cultural epidemic within South Africa as a whole.

Yes, it is ‘cultural’… over 95% of all girls are raped..by a family member..Just after puberty.  What can you say to a continent that does not believe it is a crime?

Let’s not be smugThe conviction rates for rape in the UK and in Ireland are a disgrace.

Yes, but the conviction rate for rape in South Africa is 4%South Africa has a particularly bad problem with violence against women and male entitlement.
Here is a bit more information about the rape statistics which Kathygnome mentioned.

Of the 27.6 percent of men who had committed rape, “23.2 percent of men said they had raped two to three women, 8.4 percent had raped four to five women, 7.1 percent said they had raped six to 10, and 7.7 percent said they had raped more than 10 women or girls,” the report said.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report…

Implicitly, it has ALWAYS been thatRape has always been about putting someone, especially women, “back in line”, “teaching” her a lesson about not being too vocal, too independent, too sexual, too whatever she’s not “supposed” to be. Regardless of a person’s sex, rape has always been about power.  

The US ain’t much better than the UK or IrelandTo say nothing about the attitude of far too many law enforcement officers toward rape victims, especially if she can’t be indisputably classified as Little Mary Sunshine. With those types of jerks, the damn report isn’t even taken.

DeathAll rapists should be killed and/or castrated.  These women should carry concealed weapons, a bullet to the balls really helps take ones mind off the old in-out in-out.  South Africa is notorious as the rape capital of the world, its almost a cultural norm over there.  Time to introduce the death penalty, or at least castration, both there and here.    

Anti-Rape female Condom?The statistics of women raped in South Africa is staggering. This so-called “trend” called corrective rape is not only happening in South Africa, but it is is happening to other countries in the continent of Africa and the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
Due to the high rate of rape in South Africa, I wonder if anybody have heard of Ms. Sonette Ehlers? She invented a device called Rape Axe.  It is a device that turns a woman’s vagina into a “bear trap” so to speak. Once the rapist inserts his penis into the woman, the sharp plastic barbs clings into the penis, giving the rapist unbearable pain, disabling him and giving the woman a chance to run away from her attacker.  The rapist cannot take out these plastic barbs. It can only be removed surgically at a hospital. Ehlers claim that this female condom is completely safe, even for virgin girls. It is when a man inserts his penis…well its a different story.
Many critics both men and women alike criticized the Rape Axe, as “barbaric” or “vengeful.”  Perhaps a woman can  frame an innocent man as a rapist. Ehlers responded that she agreed that her device is barbaric…”A barbaric device for a barbaric act” or something to that effect.
My question is where is this Anti-rape Condom…Is it in Production?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…

Why is anyone surprised?Sadly this isn’t anything new at all.  You-just-need-a-real-man was the way lesbianism was handled in the US through the mid-1970s.  ”Corrective rape” was commonplace — ask any of us older folks — right here merely 40 years ago.  It takes a long time to retrain society when science finally catches up with reality.

This just sickens meI had thought South Africa was a civilized section of the continent, and this is appalling.
The truckers through out Africa rationalized raping pre-teen girls so they wouldn’t get AIDS, many of these truckers themselves are infected with HIV, and just spreading it, and rationalizing their desires to rape.
Sudan had whole villages where men and boys are murdered, then impregnating the women in gang rapes.

I like the idea…But if it’s a gang, you’ve only taken out one. This is so awful to hear about.

lesbian rapes happen in the military STILLand straight women who won’t have sex are called dykes

I’m tornI would definitely agree with you that if anything merits the death penalty, it’s a crime like this. That said…I oppose the death penalty on principle, and I, for one, am not prepared to say, “Well, for this one particularly horrific crime, it’s OK.” To me, a big part of opposing the death penalty is consistency, and admitting that yeah, there are some exceptions to the principle that we, as human beings, shouldn’t be putting each other to death, seriously weakens the whole idea.
I realize that some people will disagree with me, and obviously if one doesn’t object to capital punishment in all circumstances, my objection is completely immaterial. I just wanted to point out that, tempting though the application of lex talionis is when it comes to acts as monstrous as this, I believe we should stop short of that.

Any wonderThat AIDS is skyrocketing in Africa?  

my post: South Africa’s legal promise and its contrary realityIn this post (http://wordinedgewise.org/?p=613), I tried to put this into the broader context of South Africa’s formal commitment to equality, and the legacy of apartheid (among other things) in creating disrespect for law. I also think that this about women more than about lesbians — but of course that’s an artificial separation, because all oppression and fear is connected.