Doug Saunders
The ongoing saga where Doug Saunders condescends to women about what does and what does not constitute rape, willfully misunderstands and misrepresents counterpoints in his national column, and generally tries to mansplain rape to women, activists, and survivors.
- For background, please see @LadySnarksalot's Storify below - there had been some back and forth between @DougSaunders, @junctionette, and myself prior to this Storified exchange, but his tweets have since been deleted. Those tweets centered upon the premise that the media narrative insisting the situation in India is "uniquely Indian" is problematic and unfair, due to colonialist undertones, and ignoring the fact that rape is a global concern. Doug Saunders was quite insistent that India is the "rape capital" of the world, and ignored examples such as the DR of Congo to explicate that the situation is not as quite as localized as he believes.
A few days later, Saunders instigates the following exchange: 
WTF @DougSaunders ???Doug Saunders is an International-Affairs Columnist for the Globe and Mail that came up with this gem: "Western activists' jealousy of fo...- A few days later, I wake up to a DM alerting me to the following article, where our points of view have been grossly misrepresented:
Rape is a crime everywhere, but India's crisis is uniqueA truly awful thing happened in New Delhi. The horrendous gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus was sadly far from a rare crim...
OFFS. @DougSaunders, I never ONCE said "that Indians were wrong to describe their situation as an epidemic." theglobeandmail.com/commentary/rap…- What I *said*, @DougSaunders, was that the Western media narrative about India was problematic at best, per this - translationexercises.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/gla…
- As would I. RT @junctionette I would like @DougSaunders to dig up that quote and show us.
- PS @DougSaunders you might want to look up something called #Steubenville. localleaks.blogs.ru #globalphenomenon #localexpressions
You know what, @rachelmack? I don't think @DougSaunders is interested in a dialogue. He is obviously doing this for attention.
- @PopeShakey @DougSaunders He was too busy misrepresenting @rachelmack, who apparently hurt his sensitive journo ego.
- Doug Saunders never bothered to respond to me, or my concern at being misrepresented. Others attempted to get through to him.
"Pointing fingers at India is disingenuous, racist, colonialist, hypocritical bullshit." huff.to/UThJI1 (h/t @rachelmack)- @jjfantauzzi Thanks for engaging with Saunders. He has stopped talking to me, though he seems quite happy to discuss with other men.
- RT @rachelmack: @jjfantauzzi Thanks for engaging with Saunders. He has stopped talking to me, though he seems quite happy to discuss with other men.
- @rachelmack Fantastic. And the cycle of marginalization continues. And as anyone can clearly see, we men are the experts on this subject.
- @jjfantauzzi you might want to send him this, too. washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog… #ifitcomesfromadudemaybeitwillsinkin
- .@dougsaunders And .@rachelmack wanted me to drop this off for you: wapo.st/RCvlqu
@rachelmack @jjfantauzzi I had the pleasure of an exchange the other day. A feat of restraint, but I gave up in the end -too frustrating.
