There is a clear pattern here.
Rape aXe rape prevention device was big news in the media starting 2010. After receiving funding for the past 12 years the product has still never come out.
Same story with the anti-rape underwear. Initially advertised in 2015 they reached 110 percent of their $50,000 goal almost immediately. It's been 9 years already. Still no anti rape underwear.
2013 DrinkSavvy offered straws and coasters that would tell victims if their drink has been spiked with date rape drugs. Despite quickly exceeding their funding goals on indigogo, the product never came out.
Then remember in 2014 the Undercover Colors nail polish that was supposed to tell you if your drink has been drugged? Despite receiving $3 million in funding, the product still never materialized.
People. Edison invented the lightbulb in 1 year and 2 months. The Wright brothers invented their airplane in 4 years.
They can't figure out how to make a condom with teeth in it in 12 years? Or combination lock panties in 9 years? Or drug testing kits in 11 years?
What is happening here? Are the inventors receiving rape and death threats? Or bribes, not to release them?
Also notable was the fact that every time one of these products appears, the media releases a spat of negative articles telling the women not to use the product, reasons it's not good enough, or reasons the product should be banned, such as that we should "Just teach men not to rape," instead. [Like that has worked in the thousands of years of trying. 🙄]
The pattern is clear. 1. A rape prevention device is invented. 2. Media hit-pieces come out against the product. 3. The product is never released.
What's going on here, is like the saying goes, "The threat of rape is what all men use to control all women." Meaning all men benefit from how the threat of rape restricts womens freedoms- Women are afraid to go out at night, afraid to drink in a bar, afraid to dress immodestly - all things that make a man feel less jealous over his female partner. The threat of rape causes women to seek a male protector, to defend her from other men. She is afraid to venture out without a boyfriend or husband. Some women stay in a bad marriage all because they fear living alone without a man in the house.
What a 100% game changer in society if women had some rape prevention devices at their disposal that they could choose to use or not.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 - 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐬, 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
I was wondering the same thing, it's very sus that many rape prevention gadgets have been in progress of being made and each of them suddenly just.. fades into obscurity and nothing happens. Rape is something almost all women fear, so like 40-45% of the whole world's population creates a demand for a product like this (not all women because there are pickmes who are in denial that they would even need such a device). However all we get is some niche prototypes and that's it. Considering the circumstances, some force clearly prevents these inventions from taking off, and we can all probably guess who or what that force is. While I think the effectiveness of what we have right now (such as the funky teeth condom) is debatable, just the idea that these sort of gadgets would be on the market is much better than having nothing and continuing to keep women in fear. I think a gun would be a much better weapon against rapists though.