Rape Has Become Endemic In South Africa, So A Medical Technician Named Sonette Ehlers Developed A Product

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

Reblog if you've ever cried over the death of a fictional character

HAPPY MAY THE 4TH

Awwww <3

Bitty Crow is a great character.

Tagged & Tagging

I got tagged by thefreelanceangel!

Name of Your Muse: Bitty Crow, Rica Inaya, Paige Concord, Maddie Lament, and a couple of inactives, hoo boy.

One Picture You Like Best of Your Muse’s FC:

My favorite picture of Eva Green for Bitty Crow. The hair looks tousled and her expression is hard, almost cruel in this picture. That’s how Bitty looks at the people outside the Crows. She’s pretty feral and this look captures that perfectly.

Two headcanons that you have for your muse that you never told anyone.

1) Maddie doesn’t drink because she had to give up all her vices (smoking, drinking, drugs, etc) in prison when she was pregnant. After her son was born, she had to take something back up in order to appear normal to the rest of the inmates. So she smokes like a chimney. But she doesn’t drink as a tribute to the son taken from her.

2) Paige has considered killing herself several times in order to join her family in the Mists.

Three things that your muse likes doing in their free time:

1) Bitty and Rica both like to cook. For Bitty it’s a survival skill for the wilds and among the Crows. After all, if she’s good at cooking, the others are less likely to kick her around. Rica cooks as a testament to skills learned from her father. It’s usually ethnic Elonian food that she learned in the galleys of the ships she grew up on.

2) Maddie’s time is never free; she’s always looking for work. But what she enjoys most about aimlessly searching is talking to people, learning their stories. Maybe those personal tales bring her money or work, but even if they’re just making time, she likes to learn about people.

3) Paige tinkers a bit. Mostly it’s with the glove over her left hand and the mechanism inside. She’s got it to the point that the three wooden fingers (she’s missing the last three on her left hand) inside articulate almost as well as real fingers and respond to her pointer finger’s movements seamlessly.

Two things your muse regrets:

1) Paige regrets taking up bounty hunting and not just being an obedient daughter.

2) Rica regrets letting anyone know about her first vision when she was eight. It might have led to more trouble, but surely no worse than this, right?

Two phobias your muse has:

1) Rica is afraid of magic because of how it clings to her. If even positive magic hurts, you avoid it.

2) Bitty is afraid of being caged. More literal than metaphorical, but still. She doesn’t deal with confined spaces very well.

Tag ten people to do the same thing:

vincasownwords  johnny-tyler   tikaathescarlet  rennietombs  rising-ember   liviniathornley   theaussielemming  theshadowedcorner rowboat-gw2 cmikehardy 

I went looking and was startled to find none of thefreelanceangel‘s alts there complaining at all! Then I remembered all her alts are actually mains, so they don’t complain ;) <3

I feel so terribly guilty about my many alts after reading this thread. XD