Barack Obama: "Vergewaltigung im Gefängnis ist kein Witz"

Weil von Vergewaltigungen im Gefängnis weit überwiegend Männer und nicht Frauen betroffen sind, wird diese Form der sexuellen Gewalt in der öffentlichen Debatte oft als Petitesse abgetan und lediglich zum Inhalt schlechter Witze oder in Krimis von indirekten Bedrohungen der Tatverdächtigen durch Polizisten. Unter den sozialen Bewegungen engagieren sich fast ausschließlich maskulistische Menschenrechtler in diesem Tabubereich. Womöglich bricht dieses Tabu aber endlich auf:

President Obama is calling for sweeping reforms to fix a criminal justice system he says is "skewed by race and wealth" and plagued with problems in its prisons. Among them: overcrowding, gang activity and rape.

(...) "We should not be tolerating rape in prison, and we shouldn’t be making jokes about it in our popular culture," Obama added. "That is no joke. These things are unacceptable."

(...) In 2009, the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission released a report detailing widespread sexual abuse in federal prisons, where an estimated 60,000 prisoners annually are victims.

(...) "For too long, incidents of sexual abuse against incarcerated persons have not been taken as seriously as sexual abuse outside prison walls," the department said in a release announcing the standards. "In popular culture, prison rape is often the subject of jokes; in public discourse, it has been at times dismissed by some as an inevitable or even deserved consequence of criminality. But sexual abuse is never a laughing matter, nor is it punishment for a crime."

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Hierzulande, vor allem in den Reihen der CDU, sieht man Vergewaltigungen, solange sie keine Frauen treffen, hingegen sehr locker.