Well just don't get rape in Pakistan!

Of course, the title of my post is (voluntarily) misleading. Rape victims, as all other victims, don't have say on where the crime, with which they will live at all their lives, takes place. Moreover, they also have to live the stigma associated with their crime in almost every single society in the world, which leads people to view rape victims are dirty or at least partly guilty of what happened to them. Most societies like the Pakistani society have criminalizing what they see view as solely a sexual act. In, Rape victims still have to convince juries and judges that there can be rape without penetration and that a woman can withdraw her consent at any time during the physical act. However, what made Pakistan's rape law so misogynistic is that the fact that it assumed that women were predestined to lie and to hide their wantonness by crying rape and thus required that at least four males served as witness to confirm the happening of the rape. Some steps have been taken to rectify this outrageous requirement, but much still to be improved. Many are going to argue that the causes of this problem are Islam and Sharia law. I disagree. I think that the problem is that the fact that most traditional societies are misogynistic and are incapable of viewing women as anything other than sexual objects. My argument isn't that there aren't some Islamic texts, which are problematic thus are they are some Christian texts which are problematic when it comes to women. My argument is that even if Pakistan weren’t an Islamic country, which followed Islamic law, it would still have the same backward laws and ideas about women and about rape.