Femdefence Anti-Rape Device

One of my students pointed me to the Femdefence site, based in Sweden. According to the site,

The project Femdefence is an attempt to contribute to the debate on men’s sexual violence against women in society, using the esthetics of design, and the semiotics of marketing.

Here is a schematic of their hypothetical "rape prevention device," found here:



Here is a video made as a part of this project. The second half is probably not safe for work.

It's sort of along the lines of the whole pseudo-Freudian "vagina dentata" idea. The video really freaks me out.

Just to clarify, this isn't an actual product, it's an art/commentary project. I assume this is too.

Thanks, Velanie W.!

Which Military Would You Join?

This quick video presents an American and a Swedish military recruitment commercial back-to-back.

Maybe Wendy can comment on the differences in recruitment techniques? There certainly seemed to be a lot more glory in the American version, and a lot more holy-crap-war-sucks in the Swedish version.

Via Spiked Humor

Thanks to Julie C. for this tip!