The idea is terrible applied to women in SAFE countries like ours when we never know if someday we (maybe) might be raped. It's a relatively rare occurance here but what about for women in Sudan?
In Darfur for instance, men do not leave the camp to gather firewood for fear of being killed so they send their women out. The women aren't killed but the second they see soldiers they are systematically gang raped. This often leaves the women with a terrible stigma and the men with no consequences.
If the women who left the camp each wore one of these devices they might have a better chance of changing the fear campaign against them. They might put a little bit of the problem back into the hands of the rapists and they might even increase their chances of survival. As these attacks are entirely too common and often brutal and even deadly. I can see them being helpful in a situation like this.
So no, it would be silly for we protected, privileged people to wear them but there are women in africa who might be protected from pregnancy and HIV when raped!
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Date: 2005-06-08 04:55 pm (UTC)In Darfur for instance, men do not leave the camp to gather firewood for fear of being killed so they send their women out. The women aren't killed but the second they see soldiers they are systematically gang raped. This often leaves the women with a terrible stigma and the men with no consequences.
If the women who left the camp each wore one of these devices they might have a better chance of changing the fear campaign against them. They might put a little bit of the problem back into the hands of the rapists and they might even increase their chances of survival. As these attacks are entirely too common and often brutal and even deadly. I can see them being helpful in a situation like this.
So no, it would be silly for we protected, privileged people to wear them but there are women in africa who might be protected from pregnancy and HIV when raped!