Of course, it's stupid that women have to protect themselves from rape, and it's never your fault. There's no such thing as "asking for it". I wish I could live in a society where I wouldn't have to be scared when I go home late at night. However, this is not a perfect society, and while we can try to teach people that rape is wrong, there will be more rapes and assaults in the future. I hate how people worry when a girl goes home alone at night, but it's just the way it is. I can go home alone if I want to with my head help up high thinking "It's never my fault", but that isn't going to help me when I'm being dragged into the bushes. I'll still be a victim, regardless of whose fault it is.
My stepmother told me that when she had her daughter she thought "should I teach her to be scared of men? Should I teach her martial arts?" but in the end she told her daughter to have confidence and give others the body language of "You shouldn't mess with me". Apart from sexist comments on the street (and pretty much every woman deals with that), she has never been harassed or anything of the sort. If supposedly "rape-proof panties" help with giving you that kind of confidence they are in my opinion a good thing. If they really do work? Even better.
I really would love to live in a society where rape doesn't happen, but the world is just unfair. Rape is never your fault, but until rape and/or murder doesn't exist anymore, I'm afraid things like this will have to be invented for the sake of protecting women.
My stepmother told me that when she had her daughter she thought "should I teach her to be scared of men? Should I teach her martial arts?" but in the end she told her daughter to have confidence and give others the body language of "You shouldn't mess with me". Apart from sexist comments on the street (and pretty much every woman deals with that), she has never been harassed or anything of the sort. If supposedly "rape-proof panties" help with giving you that kind of confidence they are in my opinion a good thing. If they really do work? Even better.
I really would love to live in a society where rape doesn't happen, but the world is just unfair. Rape is never your fault, but until rape and/or murder doesn't exist anymore, I'm afraid things like this will have to be invented for the sake of protecting women.