Rapes don’t happen by dicks. Sexual violence is a system of keeping caste patriarchy in place - both Savarna men & women profit from. Savarna women are guaranteed protection from violence that is unleashed on dalit, bahujan and adivasi women is why they stand by caste patriarchy. https://twitter.com/shireenazam/status/1311167656339206144
Rapes are not “biologic” consequences of having a dick or raging hormones. They happen in a political & cultural context of impunity and entitlement, given by caste and state institutions - like the police that protect the interest of dominant castes or electoral legitimacy.
Dicks don’t rape, persons gendered into caste patriarchy do. They won’t stop by keeping dicks in pants. They will end with the annihilation of caste patriarchy.

Click bait twitter updates that refuse to acknowledge this are those that empower this very system.
It is this imagination that leads to demands for castration and death penalty for rapists while all other forms of oppression that maintain access to dalit, bahujan & adivasi folx stays in place. which means impunity shall continue while some are punished.
The carceral system actually keeps caste patriarchy in place. (See work by CHRI)

Nothing less than the end of all forms of exploitation under caste patriarchy will end this - from manual scavenging to religious practices that celebrate the sexual exploitation of dalit women.
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