Another Version of Being Slapped on the Wrist

A man in India was sentenced to be slapped in public 51 times for raping a deaf and mute woman. When I was younger it was considered a slap in the face to be slapped on the wrist for a major infraction. I can't think of a more major infraction than rape and a more minor sentence than being slapped for it.

In some countries women are treated as second class citizens and with contempt. The crimes against them are legendary. It is not unusual for a woman, who has been raped, to be declared not the victim, but the culprit for being without an escort in public, or innocently having her veil blown off her face by the wind. Some of those cultures are so repressive that they blame the victim solely because she is female.

The judges who pronounced the slapping sentence should themselves be slapped. I'd be tempted to stand in line to do some of that slapping.