Post by sunshineluv on Aug 27, 2014 7:27:09 GMT -5
Ya'll are a tough crowd. So to win the seal of approval, it needs to be created by women, not cutsie, not used by women, and be educational to men about women's rights?
I think it is a step in the right direction. I don't think that any new idea has to be the best idea, or the only thing that is happening to help prevent rape and rape culture, to be a good step.
If nothing else, this has been all over my news feed, which gets people talking.
I can't get upset over the nail polish approach, and I'm surprised at the implication that it would be better received if it had been created by women. Because guys can't have concern for this as well?
Yes, real education is key, and it shouldn't be secondary to coasters, mace or nail polish. But if it's one more product that deters one more woman from getting drugged and raped, I'm all for it.
I agree 100% with everyone who says this sends the wrong message. BUT, if I had a college age daughter, I would still send her off to college with every color this polish comes in. I would be upset with myself for promoting this but I would find a way to get over it if it saved my daughter. It's very noble to make these arguments but in the real world, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I can't get upset over the nail polish approach, and I'm surprised at the implication that it would be better received if it had been created by women. Because guys can't have concern for this as well?
Yes, real education is key, and it shouldn't be secondary to coasters, mace or nail polish. But if it's one more product that deters one more woman from getting drugged and raped, I'm all for it.
It's a sad fucking world where we actually have to think about this sort of thing.
I don't understand why bars don't pass out the GHB detection coasters.
A friend's pregnant girlfriend got her soda dosed and she had a terrible reaction to it and ended up losing the baby.
My boyfriend once got dosed (someone dosed his pitcher of beer thinking it was mine and my friend's pitcher).
Later on, the bar got busted and shut down.. come to find out, for 50 bucks, the bartenders would dose someone's drink for you. Just goes to show, you can do all the right things (buying the drink yourself, watching the bartender make it, never letting it out of your sight) and some asshole rapists will still find a way.
Something about it being nail polish seems insulting. Detection coasters already exist, but this is sparkly and makes you pretty!
I do agree with this. Though, I'm guessing they were going for something more discreet?
Still think bars should have detection coasters though. Or if that's too obviously, detection swizzle sticks. Detection straws. At least those aren't gender specific. It's not only women that get dosed (though they're the majority).. men can get dosed too.
Bars don't want to have them because people will think that it's a recurrent problem at that bar and the bar will lose business.
I can't get up in arms about this. It would be great if we didn't have to worry about this shit, but we do. It blows. So if a quick dip of my finger could tell me that I am safe to drink my drink, then it's a win.