Recently, Mai*, an 18-year-old part-time male employee at a private hospital, became a victim of sexual assault. The incident occurred around 1am after a foreigner asked Mai for directions to the restroom. Mai helped the foreigner and then headed for the same restroom. Unfortunately, Mai was subjected to a non-consensual sexual act there. He told reporters that he cried for help, but nobody heard.
Mai revealed that few police officers questioned him whether the incident was consensual. In addition to the insensitive responses from the officers, it was disheartening to see that over 500 people out of 16,100 reacted to the news with laughing emojis on the Facebook page of a popular news programme. Most of those who found the news hilarious were men. Some men showed a similar attitude to the police officers. They expressed doubt as to why the incident happened so easily…
