Someone has invented anti-assault pants

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This should never have had to happen!

And now, if these get popular, how long will it be before it's

"If you didn't want to have sex, you should have worn those pants"

I hope it saves some women but I can't see them being a good thing

Oh my gosh. I am speechless!

Wow

I saw a video about them on facebook. It's shocking that it's come to these sorts of inventions, but there are places in the world where women are huge risk just walking down the street.

If rape is a constant fear in a persons day to day life, then things like this could give a little bit of extra security.

Pointless.An attacker will just punch someone til they unlock themj

..and what of them being usedas a chastity bely by controlling partners or parents?

I reckon attackers could just get more violent

I've just been reading about the repercussions of Trumps removal of funding for abortions etc, in Africa.

This has far reaching consequences.

Women and Girls are raped hourly, in Africa. I hope a charity latches on to them.

If the woman was somewhere private, like a house, I can see how the pants would enrage a rapist and cause more violence, but if a woman was dragged off the street in an opportunistic attack then it might buy her an extra few seconds to attract attention or the rapist might give up if there's more chance of getting caught.

It's the same principle as a rape whistle, it's not going to prevent all rapes or violence but an extra seconds in certain circumstances can make all the difference.

there are places in the world where women are huge risk just walking down the street.
Yes, and those are places where most women won't have the disposable income to buy chastity pants, even if they were available. So they aren't really helping with that problem

What the actual fuck?

I think tbh is someone want to rape/sexually assault someone those pants aren't going to stop anything, just make it a bit more violent maybe?

Surely they can be cut off with a knife of similar for example

We should be focusing on teaching consent and how to keep yourself safe up to a point to young boys & girls not inventing this shit

Shouldn't anti assault pants be for the potential assaulters?

I'm assuming they are to prevent rape but none of those women looked like they had penises so can't see how they will prevent rape.

Honeydragon They should be, but how many rapists do you think are going to wear them? They're not going to wake up in the morning and think to themselves 'I feel like raping someone today, I'd better put my anti-rape knickers on'.

Another way to get money out of scared women then?

I don't think it would prevent many rapes tbh rapists are not wired right and someone saying well I've got anti rape pants on what do you think a rapist is going to say? Oh ok I'll go and find a different person? Um no it is very likely to turn violent, use of a knife to cut them open, a women being seriously beaten until they open

We do not need these pants! We need parents/schools to teach young children about consent and keeping yourself as safe as you can

There was an article about this in the Guardian a few years ago.

Bailey, do you seriously think that a violent attacker will grab a woman, try for a few seconds and then think, "drat, foiled"?

Exactly. And if they are going to tape someone than anti assault knockers won't stop the attack.

Like pp state it's just another way to make profit through victim blaming

Also I am not sure but that mechanising looks like it just needed turning. So if a rapist knocked a woman out from behind or had drugged her then he can just twist it himself.

They really are a ridiculous idea that plays up to the whole rape = "stranger in an alley".

birds the dutch have started a fund with many countries saying they will contribute, it's a great response to something that should never have happened in the first place. Playing with women's lives - literally - for ideology - disgusting.

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If a woman wants to wear them, if she feels she is slightly safer, what's wrong with her choosing to do that? I don't see that they will actually make a woman safer, but if she feels safer surely that is a good thing?

When you go to the museum and see the chastity belts everyone says My God that's awful. When you look at countries where women's clothing is a certain way by law to stop them inflaming men everyone says Wow that's awful, so oppressive.

meanwhile in the west women are being persuaded to buy and wear chastity belts for themselves.

As others point out - host of problems with this. It won't work, being exhibit A.

I would also worry how quick they are to undo, I need a wee quite urgently sometimes.

This made me think of Emily Prager's "The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-rape Device", wonderful short story that gives the old vagina dentata some teeth.

Is a false sense of security better than not though barinatxe?

I'm not sure it is.

If women have a false sense of security, and feel like they are "protecting themselves" and that rape is something women need to take responsibility for preventing, as individuals, then that diminishes women's (as a group) struggle to get these crimes taken seriously.

I don't think that pushing rape on to someone else is a solution to anything really, at a societal level. Men just seek out other - often more vulnerable - victims. And society says "well what do they expect they need to take responsibility they didn't protect themselves".

In real life the woman will likely be assaulted in other ways even if he can't get the pants open.