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Please tell me it’s because a rapist drew back a bloody stump and complained to 60 Minutes.
May 10th, 2008
Every now and then, I get a wild hair and check my blog stats. It’s usually pretty much the same every time: a couple dozen new visitors a day plus a handful of loyal returning Rib readers (you know who you are, my friends - and several uppity unlinkables).1
The keywords from whence people have found my blog range from amusing (”how do you pronounce friggatriskaidekaphobia”) to disturbing (”bat into women’s pussy”) to perplexing (”uppity baby stroller”).
Yesterday was a wild hair day so I bellied up to the Statcounter and found, to my surprise, that the Rib’s hits had spiked dramatically for the week. I checked again today and the trend continues. By the first week in May, I had as many hits as I had for the entire month of April.
Keyword log reveals that almost all of these recent visitors are finding my blog by searching for text or images of “anti rape condom” and “vagina dentata,” and have landed on this post.
I wrote my rant about Rapex when it was scheduled for mass production in April 2007. I didn’t follow the story to confirm whether that actually happened. Now for some reason, almost exactly a year later, buttloads of people are boning up2 on this device.
WTF? Did it have a birthday party and forget to invite me? Is it now available over-the-counter like Zyrtec? Or at the pharmacy like a kind of creepy Plan B (”When you’re out of mace, there’s Rapex”)?
I conducted my own googlefest and found no recent news on the weenie whooper-chopper. I did, however, get to reread many idiotic complaints about it from critics. Most of them say, essentially:
“Rapex maims men! It’s too bad about the slut– er, victim and all, but what about the poor rapist? Didja ever think about him? Huh? Huh?!”
I have my own concerns about the so-called anti-rape device, but they sure as fuck aren’t about protecting a rapist’s precious wanker.
Anyway, if you know why everyone and their dog is recently reading up on Rapex, please comment.
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3 Responses to “Please tell me it’s because a rapist drew back a bloody stump and complained to 60 Minutes.”
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VERY interesting. Love the title, lol.
It seems (from looking at the RapeX site, bare of any advertisers) that the concerns you shared last April must be shared by most. It would be interesting to read research on how much of a deterrent this is (if it is). I had some of the same concerns you did. RapeX seems like more of a bad idea than a good idea.
I have no idea why you’re suddenly getting hits. Can you tell what region they’re coming from?
Something similar happened with my post on heels (shoes): http://stillunhinged.blogspot.com/2007/03/firsts-heels.html. I could tell the hits came mostly from Germany and via an email referrer–as if someone had sent my post to a subscriber’s list.
I also got frankenspammed on my post about who Brad Lenz is: http://stillunhinged.blogspot.com/2006/10/pain-in-butt-advertising.html and I STILL get hits on this today.
U: The hits have no pattern of region; they are from all over the globe. However, it’s interesting that most of them are searching for images, not text. Curiouser and curiouser. Enjoyed your posts you linked; fyi, I’ve haven’t been a heels woman since my first few attempts, either.
As much as I hate the idea of maiming rapists (can’t say that with a straight face), I do wonder.. if a woman is supposed to wear a Rapex condom to prevent rape, and not knowing when that would happen - wouldn’t they need to wear one all the time? Wouldn’t that be a little costly? Especially for the women of South Africa. That aside, the effects of constant latex in the vagina is bound to cause some serious infections. I like the concept but to me, it hasn’t been thoroughly thought out.