February 27, 2009 faii Aroundtheweb, Blog

FemDefence – Protection from Rape

Posted from Lambeth, England, United Kingdom.

Femdefence Anti-rape Device

Yesterday, i was surfing for stuff on e-collaboration, when i came across this featured post on a savvy tech site.

People can giggle, laugh and joke about it, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the birds and the bees. It’s a sad situation. A fellow intern knows of a friend who got raped a week back, IN Singapore.

Though this device might be effective and efficient in accomplishing its intended purpose, i just can’t help but feel it’s both utterly degrading and humiliating at the same time.

This in turn further emphasises how vulnerable women are and how despicable the male species can be. According to the diagram below (found it here), the user essentially has a 6.2cm bullet surrounded by erogenous tissue. It’s a humiliating solution to an even more humiliating threat. How do you walk, and party, with the knowledge you’re using it? The 17cm string doesn’t make it any easier/comforting.

Another issue i could think of – a rapist is essentially a crazed hormonal cock-tail (pardon the pun). If he already has the gall to force a lady down to the ground, i don’t think a bleeding penis and all that pain will stop him from exacting physical revenge on her. Worse if it’s a group of guys.

It’s disgusting the way, the state of things. Rapists ought to be shot, execution style – no trial, no jury.

p.s. unlike our northern neighbours, i am not of the opinion that dressing sleazily is an invitation to rape or that the onus thereby lies solely or mostly on the lady. i think guys, given their physical advantage and power, should have the maturity to control their gonads. in the same manner that nudist beaches are not orgies. don’t be bodoh, please.

Femdefence Diagram

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Average Joe

Interesting device indeed, I stumbled upon it a while back and sent them an email, to which they haven’t replied to yet (Around two months go).

Here is the original email.

I looked at it, and I said to myself, 'Marvelous! Finally.'.
But then I thought a bit; If this product hits the market, it will create awareness. Rapists will of course check before attempting insertion. Unless the rapist is THAT desperate and hurried, it will do nothing except get the woman beaten. Not only that; It will create numerous issues and law complications. Let's put the law aside for a moment, and we'll come back to it later. Let's see. A young couple. They've just met a couple of months ago, and are in love. Of course the girl is using the new FemDefence - who would risk going without it? They go back to his place, and they agree to make love. He inserts himself - and lets out a violent scream. Blood can be seen splattering and he is on the floor twisting with pain. The girl is horrified, she understood that she forgot the FemDefence inside! What could she do?! Sue him for rape, to save herself from any blame. Now, what kind of self-respecting lawyer wouldn't be able to get the guy thrown in jail? By a simple missed thought, the guy gets his reproductive organ irreversibly damaged, thrown in jail, and obviously break up with his girlfriend. The girl gets to live with the guilt. Oh sure, that may be rare. Mind you this could also be done purposefully, not only by accident, quite obviously. Is that really worth the measly fractions of percents of rape cases this might prevent? And I really doubt the woman would be able to live through the beating a rapist would deliver for one such device. Please consider my thoughts.
Yours Truly, An Average Joe.
Renee

excuse you and your ignorance but the ‘northern neighbours’ comment really agitated me. It’s some stupid politician’s opinion, don’t group all of us together. Would you like it if I group you in the opinion of lets say, Lee Kuan Yew? You are so ignorant the exact way I expected some Singaporeans are.
faii

Dear Renee,

No offense given, and none taken. I do not intend for my counter-riposte to be personal. And pardon structural errors given the few minutes i can spare for this.

As a Malaysian myself, I can understand your ‘agitation’ and if i may, indignation. It is a warranted feeling. However, it only goes so far before becoming indistinguishable with the gestalt manner in which our many of our fellow Malaysians conduct themselves online, as a a cursory Google search would offer. Then again, as you’ve championed, we do not stereotype, nor choose to remain ignorant.

Regarding your mention of a ‘stupid politician’, my reference in the original post was made in the context of your volunteer religious police. It should have been obvious at first-glance. If you are familiar with current affairs, the growing Islamicisation of our country would provide a better foil for your agitations and inclinations. From your name, might i believe you to be removed from the ethnic association of aforementioned religious volunteers, as with most Malaysians and the politician you might have in mind?

Allow me to digress. It is most unfortunate for a number of newer-generation Malaysian politicians to cultivate a ‘destroy Singapore’ mindset, as said by (if i recall correctly) by Datuk Ong Tee Keat, on a trip to Singapore. Even so, Khairy’s response to Indonesia’s over-zealous reactions food, was confrontational. Instructing Indonesia to ‘be careful’ is rather ironic, given all the awful and sometimes unthinking comments Malaysia heaps on Singapore. Again if newspapers are insufficient, attempt a Google search. With my feet firmly in both boats, i believe i can safely say that Singapore’s non-confrontational and measured responses (again usually after calculated periods of media silence) is simply the way grown-ups behave.

I respect the old-guard of both nations. With the founding fathers of the modern Malaysia being very close to my direct predecessors, including the Gentleman who let Singapore go from the Federation, i feel an abject disappointment at the lack of initiative in wholeheartedly developing Malaysia and its people without fear or favour. It utterly blindsides the potential in every Malaysian.

Taking a big-picture stance, it’s not about Malaysians or Singaporeans, being better than the other regardless of the yardstick. Both countries are not just indispensible to each other – we are family. And that renders all our bickering irrelevant.

And yes, it would most certainly be an honour to be mentioned in the same breathe as MM Lee Kuan Yew.

Best,

faii