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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the shorts-in-short-supply dept.

The safe shorts are available as running pants or hotpants. "Starting off, we only produced a small series, but it was sold out really quickly", tells us the entrepreneur from Oberhausen. The demand – 80% of it in Germany/from Germany (the article says, mostly German women buy it) – is high.

The shorts feature a padded crotch (to reduce groping), a locked-down waist draw-string, cut- and tear-resistant fabric, and a 130 dB alarm.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/02/german-women-in-fear-new-anti-rape-pants-sell-out-very-quickly/

[Update: Mea culpa! A comment to the original story provided evidence that the source of this story is less than entirely reputable. The above link cites, as its source, Bild. My German is rusty, but it appeared that the Voice Of Europe story is a nearly-literal translation of the story appearing in Bild... So, all is good, right? Umm, nope. Though Bild is extremely popular, Wikipedia notes: "It is the best-selling non-Asian newspaper and has the eighth-largest circulation worldwide." (No wonder I recognized the title of the publication!) Reading further, however, reveals: "...Bild has been described as 'notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism' and as having a huge influence on German politicians. Its nearest English-language stylistic and journalistic equivalent is often considered to be the British national newspaper The Sun, the second highest selling European tabloid newspaper, with which it shares a degree of rivalry."

Ugh. I apologize for letting a story such as this make it to the front page. There's too much discussion on this story to remove it at this point, so I would just ask that those posting comments please try to avoid inflammatory, bigoted, and/or racist remarks and, instead, focus on the shorts' construction and functionality. --martyb]

[ I still say you should have blamed it on Russian hackers. --TMB ]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @08:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @08:52PM (#634088)

    Rape is completely forbidden in Islamic law..

    This may be so, but you forget, their 'defintion' of a woman does not cover your typical western woman. The logic chopping involved goes something like

    a. They do not dress and act like true (Muslim, obviously) women, ergo they're not women.
    b. All rules regarding women, rape etc no longer apply to them

    Note, I'm not saying all Muslim males think this way, in fact, I was first told about this by an Algerian Muslim back in the early '90s in London, he was making a point one night about how Pakistani Muslims in the North of England playing silly buggers with their 'interpretation' of Islamic Law were going to cause trouble for everyone..this was long before the stories broke about the 'grooming gangs' here in the UK, and when you hear exactly the same thing from a Saudi of Palestinian descent a couple of years later...