Four
male college students of the North Carolina State University (pictured
above) are working on a new nail polish that protects women against
sexual assault. It's called the rape prevention nail polish or the
anti-rape nail polish. Now that's genius.
According to their facebook page, the aim of their company Undercover Colors, is
"to
invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves. With our
nail polish, any woman will be empowered to discreetly ensure her safety
by simply stirring her drink with her finger. If her nail polish
changes colour, she'll know that something is wrong."Kelly Oxford; a New York times Best Selling Author commended the idea:
"This
new nail polish that can detect the date rape drug is great if you
think women aren't trying hard enough not to get molested."Andrea Grimes, a Senior Political Reporter at RH Reality Check, pointed out on twitter that
"Rape prevention nail polish sounds like a great idea but I'm not sure how you're going to get men to wear it."And
of course the invention was greeted with enough backlashes one would
expect of such "strong" topic. So I got reactions from 3 different
twitter users. Their say:
IjeomaOluo: Women molested by loved ones, family members, dates, friends. Women molested as war tactics. You think a polish would help them?Lindywest:
I am not really that into the "rape prevention" nail polish. how about
women don't have to wear a special nail polish and dunk their fingers in
every cocktail to not get molested. But "rape prevention nail polish"
is the DEFINITION of "looking like you're helping." It's an impractical
fix for ONE specific circumstance.Ryan MacLean:
Instead of finding real prevention methods it perpetuates the idea that
women should be held responsible for not getting molested.
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