Damn that was a good book. If you liked that, may I suggest: * Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India by The Staff of The Wall Street Journal (very short read) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CO4GO9G/ * The documentary India's Daughter https://vimeo.com/ondemand/indiasdaughter
I spend a lot of time in India so the Indian perspective on these issues is of interest to me. I also find there is also a greater willingness to directly face and discuss some of the realities of rape culture there. For example, acting like rape is women's fault, encourages rape and that treating stalking and ignoring a women's wishes as a cute romcom narrative encourages rape.
> Eighteenth-century customs of war usually did the vanquished the honor of allowing him to march out of his lines to lay down his arms with his flags flying and his band playing a march from the victor's national book of martial melodies. But Clinton (british general) dishonored Lincoln (usa revolutionary general) by requiring the Americans to keep their colors cased and forbidding them to play an English or German air.
so - during the surrender at yorktown - the American's got the british back
>American Brigadier General Henry Knox wrote that day to his wife: "They will have the same honors as the garrison of Charleston; that is they will not be permitted to unfurl their colors or play Yankee Doodle."
The shame of the british not being allowed to play yankee doodle was a dastardly slight. it made the british troops so mad that when they surrendered their arms they threw them on the ground so hard that they attempted to break them as to be inoperable from - Vowell, Lafayette in the somewhat united states.