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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 26 2014, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-I-live-in-a-different-world-please? dept.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a new nail polish called Undercover Colors changes color when it comes in contact with any date rape drug so, a woman just has to discretely dip her finger in her drink to test it for safety. "Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime," say four male undergraduates at North Carolina State University who are developing the polish and currently asking for donations to complete their work. "​Through this nail polish and similar technologies, we hope to make potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman’s drink because there’s now a risk that they can get caught."

However some sexual assault prevention advocates warn that the nail polish is not necessarily the best way to approach the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses. “One of the ways that rape is used as a tool to control people is by limiting their behavior,” says Rebecca Nagle. “As a woman, I’m told not to go out alone at night, to watch my drink, to do all of these things. That way, rape isn’t just controlling me while I’m actually being assaulted — it controls me 24/7 because it limits my behavior. Solutions like these actually just recreate that. I don’t want to fucking test my drink when I’m at the bar. That’s not the world I want to live in.” According to Alexandra Brodsky the argument that women simply need to be more responsible is a common response to the current conversation about sexual assault on college campuses — and one that activists say doesn’t get to the heart of the issue. "The problem isn’t that women don’t know when there are roofies in their drink; the problem is people putting roofies in their drink in the first place."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday August 26 2014, @11:23PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 26 2014, @11:23PM (#85969) Journal
    "I don’t want to fucking be beaten to the punch by a wonkey monkey. That’s not the world I want to live in.”
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  • (Score: 1) by KilroySmith on Wednesday August 27 2014, @12:49AM

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @12:49AM (#85995)

    I'm sitting here laughing my head off at that comment. Props, my good man. (or is my chauvinism showing with the gender assumption there?)

    • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:14AM

      by DECbot (832) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:14AM (#86040) Journal

      KillroySmith automatically assumes that I'm a man, and yet doubt's his presumption and thinks that could be a woman. That's not the world I want to live in.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:20AM (#86062)

        It is obvious that you are a eunuch.