Great article with many valid points that society needs to try to recognise, rather than to brush off as jokes or justify with a kind of "but he started it!" response. Thanks for this important article. Have you written a Thai version anywhere else? it may be eye-opening for some. :)
Excellent piece. I felt like the examples you gave must be made up (how could they be true?), but I am told they are all perfectly true. These are serious. I was shocked with the intemperate remarks of the prime minister, for which he has since apologized, but the evidence you present shows that this is more than a single slip by a prominent figure. There are problems here that need to be addressed Great job in bringing them more into public view.
This article is by far the most succinct, intelligent and well-written argument about any subject that I've seen in the BKK Post. She boldly hits all the low points regarding Thailand's almost complete lack of PC awareness and is not afraid (as so many other BKK Post writers are) to clearly call out Thai society and current leaders on this topic. Great job! I hope your efforts help move this conversation forward across the country. It's long overdue.
I remember a Thai Minister a few months back saying apropos of another raped farang girl, that having a meal with someone was a tacit agreement for sex. In the West we call that "Date rape".
Violence and rape on the soapies yet a glass of alcohol blurred out. Graphic images on the news of murdered and car accident victims make for strange standards indeed.
Many men still can't understand woman can't be bullied sexually or by sexual harassment. Even verbal harassment also can't apply on woman. Woman exists to be respected and loved. How can a civilized person can't refrain himself when seeing a bikini donning girl around? Some religions belittle woman's existing value of importance. Keep thinking that woman is weaker sex. So, they can overpower woman when she is alone and being beautiful and sexy. Men have wrongful perception that all women are "fight first-consent later". Rape has become a way of bulling woman to fulfill animal desire. Worse still is that rape-first-kill-later.