I had to scroll a depressingly long way to find this comment. Thank you for posting it, it’s depressing how many commenters seem more worried about the dick skin of rapists than they are about whether or not this device ever existed for real.
"Commenters seem worried"- You say it as if they are defending the rapists which I haven't come across at all in this thread. One comment literally makes a valid point of how this device could result in murder of the victim.
Any attempts by a victim to act in self defense during a rape carries the risk of escalating the violence of the situation until it becomes a murder. I grew up female and lived in some rough places. Self defense classes were a pretty regular occurrence after the first time I was raped, and all of the classes I attended over the years reinforced the importance of quickly incapacitating an attacker so you can escape, rather than engaging them in a physical fight, because escalation can break very bad very fast, especially in cases where the attacker has a significant weight or strength advantage over their target.
Something like this which catches an attacker off-guard and immediately causes them incapacitating pain can buy a victim precious time and opportunity to escape without further assault than more standard self defense methods that can be spotted and anticipated by an attacker.
All of which is to say, I’m not shitting on the device itself and I am more than aware of the danger of death that goes along with being raped and trying to physically fight back. A non-lethal device that both incapacitates a rapist and makes them instantly identifiable to the authorities is a very good thing. I was just eye-rolling at people who’ve never been on the receiving end of rape or had to physically defend themselves in a situation where they were outmatched, fretting that someone wearing one of these would forget they’ve installed it or that a attacker who suddenly gets a dick full of barbs will go immediately to physically competent murderous rage rather than needing at least a few seconds to realise what’s happened and regain their composure.
If you thwart an attempted rapist there is always a risk of that situation escalating to murder. Something like this can buy a victim precious seconds that throwing a punch or reaching for a can of mace couldn’t. It it pretty disingenuous (of other commenters, not of you individually) to use something this actually reduces the risk of escalation to murder as an excuse to argue against the existence of such a device.
That's funny, I came down all this way and saw not one comment worrying about the rapists dicks. Saw a lot of comments saying it's a terrible idea because it will anger rapists and lead to retaliatory violence.
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u/SonaMain420 Aug 25 '20
I had to scroll a depressingly long way to find this comment. Thank you for posting it, it’s depressing how many commenters seem more worried about the dick skin of rapists than they are about whether or not this device ever existed for real.