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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: 1) by art guerrilla on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:06AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:06AM (#86007)

    *except*, i would be willing to bet 9 out of 10 times it will NOT be a chick finding out a psychopath is about to victimize her, but some bros pulling a bad trick on their bud trying to (innocently, as it were) pick up said chicka...
    ...or even a psycho 'saving' a chicka with *his* magically polished nail, only to rape later...
    like most tools, this cuts with two edges...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:09AM (#86009)

    i would be willing to bet 9 out of 10 times it will NOT be a chick finding out a psychopath is about to victimize her, but some bros pulling a bad trick on their bud

    Wow.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:55PM (#86434)

    I'm pretty sure most "Bros" would limit their prank to their friend, and not drug some random "chicka" for shits and giggles. It does sound like the sort of thing the suddenly confronted rapist would claim though "Oh no, I have no idea how roofies got into the drink I just gave you. I bet it was my asshole friends."

    9 times out of 10? Come on.