Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”
Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.
When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.”
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
SQUIRTLE VARIANTS
*Shows up months late to the pokemon variant bandwagon with Starbucks*
Frankly, I wish I was embarassed at how much thought I put into this, but I’m not. I’m really not.
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Woops my 10 minute study break turned into a whole year
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I look around, there’s baby pictures of me everywhere. - Sheng Wang (x)
Honestly like… I wish the pressure to shun my culture and the language my parents spoke wasnt so high as a child like looking back im so fucking ashamed because I was so embarrassed and hurt over what kids would say and how they would make fun of it. I dont think white people actually realize how traumatizing that in and of itself is. We were pushed to tell our parents not to pack us lunches like that anymore cuz kids thought it was dumb. We told them we hated the music and the clothes and everything that was their and our blood because kids were so mean. Man. The look of confusion and misunderstanding on your parents face when you tell them you hate your culture. Trying to suck it up and laugh it off when your friends mocked you and your family. Childhood shouldnt be like that.
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