onsidering the astronomical rape incidents in India, I am not shocked this underwear is coming out of India.
Women
must do whatever it takes to protect our dignity as human, even if it
involves shocking or killing attackers. Yeah, that is how I feel as a
woman when it comes to rape. You try me, I will kill you with my last
breath.
THREE engineering students have come up with “anti-rape” underwear that gives an electric shock to attackers AND alerts cops.
The trio designed a camisole underwired with a technology that can deliver up to 82 electric shocks.
The
garment has pressure sensors sewn in around the bust area that detect
groping hands and send out the shock – which has the strength of a stun
gun.
The product also sends a message to police as well as to the family of the victim.
The
undergarment – dubbed Society Harnessing Equipment or SHE – was created
by trainee automobile engineers from Chennai, India after the fatal
gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a New Delhi bus last
December.
Last
month a Swiss woman was attacked in the country and a British tourist
told how she jumped out of her hotel window fearing a man was trying to
molest her.
Co-inventor
Manisha Mohan said: “A person trying to molest a girl will get the
shock of his life the moment pressure sensors get activated.”
She
explained that she and colleagues Niladri Basu and Rimpi Tripathy
decided to put the wiring into the clothing after a survey showed most
women were first groped on their breasts.
The
women are protected from the current by polymer insulation in the bra.
The makers are currently fine-tuning the design – hoping the garment
will be on sale by the end of this month.
“Studying in a convent girls’ school, we were always taught to be good to everyone around and bear a cheerful smile.
“After
stepping into the real, cruel world we realised that our smile could
not last for long as the threat to our purity and integrity always
lingered on.
“Lawmakers
take ages to come up with just laws and even after that, women are
unsafe. Hence, we have initiated the idea of self-defence, which
protects the women from domestic, social and workplace harassment.”
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