Posted on 11/27/2020 12:18:32 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Women are the subject of unwanted sexual advances and physical contact all the time. Despite this, they often have a hard time being believed. In 2018 Swiss beverage company Schweppes teamed up with Brazilian advertising agency Ogilvy to create dresses that records groping. This is their “Dress for Respect” project. (1) Dress For Respect: Dresses that Records Groping
After hearing numerous complaints from women that even men they trust don’t believe them when they experience sexual harassment, Schweppes and Olgivy created dresses that record groping using built-in sensors. (2)
Three women were then sent on a night out wearing the dresses. The dresses and a camera crew captured just how many times the women experienced unwanted physical advances. (2)
At the beginning of the video, the camera crews asked a few men outside of the club how big of an issue they thought sexual harassment is for women. These men all denied the issue. (2)
The dresses quickly proved them wrong. In less than four hours, men touched the women non-consentually 157 times. (2)
The Sensors
There are sensors in the dresses that are connected to computers via a wifi connection. These sensors work to detect when where and how the woman is touched.
In another room, the team watched on a computer which shows up as a heat map. The most-touched areas of the body were the backside, arms, and lower back.
When you do the math, this project shows the women being touched without consent once or more times every five minutes. (1)
While this isn’t peer-reviewed research, the results are not encouraging.
Proving a Point: Women Deserve Respect
This dress is just meant to prove a point and will not be made available commercially. The goal is to show how much sexual harassment women have to deal with in their daily lives.
The reality is, women should not need a dress that records unwanted advances; men should just respect women. If a man wishes to approach a woman at a nightclub, bar, cafe, grocery store, anywhere – they should approach with respectful conversation. Touching without permission in any way is harassment. Period.
Silliest thing today and that wasn’t easy.
But I bet it will get a lot of innocent folks in trouble
The world has gone mad
What if the woman “gropes” herself and accuses somebody else?
The most-touched areas of the body were the backside, arms, and lower back.
Then they wonder why marriage rates are in the toilet. Who wants to marry a man hating shrew?
Yet, if the woman dresses respectfully, they are treated as such.
As a(n older) woman, I can’t believe how stupid they are!
A couple of years ago there were studies showing that when women asking a man for directions touched his arm, he was much more likely to help her. Oddly this was not considered groping nor harassment, but rather a valuable way for a woman to get a man to respond to her.
I think if she touches herself, it should short out the device.
I dunno. Men should just have better womanners — oops! I mean manners.
All Female Staffers of ‘President Suspect’ Biden should be issued these dresses, STAT! ;)
I do not recall ever hearing about a Mennonite or Amish Woman being groped.
Why do you suppose that is?
Could it be because they dress very modestly?
The way some women dress looks like they are sending out an invitation .....
Subtle message - touching a woman AT ALL FOR ANY REASON is harassment. No, it’s NOT! It’s a ridiculous premise.
Setting the bar so low for what’s not truly harassment only trivializes what true harassment is.
Your right! However, in there distorted minds they think we are the ones that don’t get it. Go figure!
“Setting the bar so low for what’s not truly harassment only trivializes what true harassment is.”
Exactly. When EVERYTHING is ‘racist,’ then NOTHING is ‘racist’ applies as well.
imagine if all the women around Biden wore these!
ROFL
Or what if she gets bumped and claims it’s a gripe like that poor kid who’s backpack caught a woman’s butt and she accused him of groping her?
Poor kid, adult woman screaming and accusing him of sexually assaulting her on a public street because he backpack bumped into her.
“this project shows the women being touched without consent once or more times every five minutes.”
Serious?
Their only option is to turn their male offspring into trannies and or homosexuals.../s
I know if I don’t want to be touched on the arm or the small of the back... I go to a crowded Brazilian night club.
I bet the dress identified more unwanted touching than the women themselves. Because only the woman new when it was unwanted. The dress speaks for itself not the women wearin
g it.
I know if I don’t want to be touched on the arm or the small of the back... I go to a crowded Brazilian night club.
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