GPS Lingerie is tacky, prompts feminists into sputtering, hysterical overreaction
The Daily Mail's latest tawdry little freak-out: some garishly tacky lingerie with a clunky GPS unit installed between panties and pudendum.*
According to the Daily Mail, "feminists around the world have reacted with horror" to the GPS lingerie, which is — according to them — "nothing more than a chastity belt for insecure men."
It's an overreaction. Surely both insecure men and feminists alike realize that any woman who decided to cheat on her partner would probably deign to leave the GPS enabled sex suit at home.
On the designer's part, though, she's lapping up the controversy, but she's also doing a poor job of selling her product: she's claiming its main use is to keep women "safe on a night out alone." Uh.
You know, this actually isn't a bad idea, but no one's coming out and saying what and who it's really for. Feminists are saying its to keep women chaste, the designer is claiming its to protect women wandering the slums of Rio de Janeiro while wearing nothing but diaphanous, translucent underpants. Neither is very likely. This lingerie set has one use, and it's a good one, if you're into that sort of thing: sexual scavenger hunts between partners.
Outrage over 'chastity belt' lingerie fitted with GPS tracking system [Daily Mail via Gadget Lab]
* - I know, not really. The unit is actually nuzzled in a pocket near the waist. I just wanted to write that sentence, and Penthouse won't publish any of my letters ever since my "Night at the Nursing Home" epistle — starting with the unforgettable sentence "I never thought I'd make it with three generations at once, but one day..." — caused a minor controversy amongst activists for the elderly.
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Do you mean a sort of sexy geocacheing? You know the approximate co-ordinates where your girlfriend is waiting in her lingerie, and just have to find her?
Actually yeah, that's pretty hot.
/me goes shopping for GPS toys...
This will do nothing to deter women leaving their bras and panties behind to "mark their territory".
@1: That is precisely what I mean.
Remember kids: Daily Mail == Probably not true.
A pimp's got to know where his hoes is at.
I'm always surprised to see images of attractive women on this site and it makes me excited and then I never read the story.
I thought it was to help men find the clitoris.
What about sexy hiking and skiing? Why does everybody always forget about sexy hiking and skiing? Everyone call the president of Olympics and demand they include sexy hiking and skiing in London.
PS - @Viadd/#7, I see what you did there. - 8.7/10
Speaking as someone who reads a hell of a lot of feminist blogs, I have seen precisely one mention of this, and it was a woman laughing at the Daily Mail's fabrication of "feminist outrage".
That's what the Daily Mail does. They say shit like "MUSLIMS OUTRAGED OVER CHRISTMAS PLAY!" and there is not one shred of evidence that any Muslim ever gave a damn about it
I second what #4 said.
Yep, it ain't called the Daily Fail for nuthin'. Me, I think that this could result in a very special type of geocaching.