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Skip next section What is driving instances of violence following rejected romantic advances? 07/16/2026 July 16, 2026 What is driving instances of violence following rejected
Skip next section What is driving instances of violence following rejected romantic advances? 07/16/2026 July 16, 2026 What is driving instances of violence following rejected romantic advances? Most of the recent cases of violence following rejected romantic advances disproportionately involve men attacking women. Mumbai-based psychotherapist Arpita Bohra told DW that such possessiveness and entitlement stem from perpetrators' viewing of women as something they possess rather than as autonomous individuals.
Bohra said the violence comes "from the sense that this is mine. It belongs to me. If I can't have it, nobody else can have it," a mindset she said is driven by the dehumanization of women. "When a boundary is set, when
the woman becomes unavailable, there is a very destructive aggression and entitlement that comes out," she said, adding that such violence is often used to "punish women" and "put women in their place." Riya Khanna, a psychologist, points out that men are brought
up with a sense of entitlement that "dictates them to take extreme action if something is not going their way." "Such men might have been privy to instances of violence, abuse, or volatile environment which can make them believe that is normal," Khanna said.
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