[markomalley]

Modern day chastity belts?

[ClearCase_guy]

This is the third article I've seen in which a Liberal is upset -- very upset -- that a product is being marketed to consumers who might wish not to be raped.

I guess the Liberals feel that the rapists' rights are being denied.

[Daveinyork]

This sort of blames the victim, but I heard Walter Williams say that, if you drive your car into a bad neighborhood, park it, leave the keys and your wallet on the roof, if someone takes it, they are to blame, but you are stupid.

If you don’t want it take, in today’s instant gratification culture, if you don’t want it taken lock it up, but hiding it also makes sense, if you catch my drift.

[Vaquero]

so.... if the perp who slips out of darkness finds and attacks the young woman with the rape proof pants...he will not beat the victim to a pulp until said pants are removed?

perhaps make it with a time lock?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For the later part of the 19th Century, into the 20th Century, polite women had an effective defense against rape in the form of hat pins. Certain men had strong objections against that as well:

“Laws were passed in 1908 in America which limited the length of hatpins, as there was a concern they might be used by suffragettes as weapons. Also by the 1910s, ordinances were passed requiring hatpin tips to be covered so as not to injure people accidentally.”

Truthfully, it wasn’t just suffragettes they were worried about, but ordinary women defending themselves. An injury in the abdomen with a hat pin might not even be noticed at first, but could cause deadly internal bleeding, and later, deadly peritonitis (inflammation, often infection, of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs.)

The idea that women might have a *lethal* defense against rape rather terrified many men who had at least an inclination to rape.

In 1900, the Chicago Tribune published a tabulation of the different weapons used by women in the previous year’s assaults. Involved in 55 assaults, hatpins were ranked between thrown plates (73) and hair brushes and hand mirrors (48).

In 1898 in Chicago, a woman vindicated the reputation of the hatpin as a woman’s most efficient weapon, and drove two robbers from a Blue Island avenue (street)car, stabbing both multiple times, preventing them from robbing the conductor.

There are many examples of women thwarting robbers, muggers and rapists with them.

Movie star Marlene Dietrich even proposed to Douglas Fairbanks that by concocting an elaborate ruse to get near him, she could use a poisoned hat pin to assassinate Adolf Hitler. However, becoming familiar with the tight security that surrounded him, it became obvious she could not smuggle it close enough to him to use it.

[Gay State Conservative]

These are *my* underpants and they've been 100% effective in preventing rape so far.

[3Fingas]

There is nothing wrong about this idea except that the evil that is present in the world that makes such clothing seem necessary.

[wildbill]

Everything old is new again. A return to the Dark Ages is merely a re-cycling of history and a rediscovery of ancient technologies.

Hey, add one of those Burkas with the complete face mask to her wardrobe and the lady has the best anti-rape combination available to wear.

Add one other item, a large bell and clapper, and screams of ‘Unlclean! Unclean!” and the lady is not only as safe as possible, but she has identified herself to normal males as possibly someone with an obsessive psychosis that might not be normal.

[Repeat Offender]

Better option.

[catnipman]

Not gonna work unless they’re made from Kevlar or chain mail.