Well with women having these on hand at least the incels will finally achieve one of their objectives:
Women thinking they're smokin' hot.
And yet somehow I feel this might not be the best path forward.
Well... let's try it out for a little and see what happens.
Typically without solid training what happens is the weapon gets turned on the wrong person.
But, for the sake of a good time we can imagine some asshole pervs getting lit up like a cigar. Heh heh. Awesome.
I hope the QA is good. Training or no training, these aliexpress specials will probably just self immolate in your bag.
Honestly, I hope it is more deterrent than anything else
Great, create more fear in society and pit people against each other and give them weapons, too. Winning concept.
Pit people against whom? Their active attacker? Who are you worried about making afraid?
By that logic, shouldn't everyone carry a gun too? If it's theoretically only going to be used against an active attacker, what's the big deal?
(Note: this isn't an argument for carrying guns)
A lot of people carry guns specifically for that reason. I’m not saying it’s a perfect solution, but it speaks of a bigger issue that is being ignored. If people are forced to look out for themselves then the options become very limited and outside of the possibility of anything approaching ideal. I’m not choosing to worry about the attackers getting set on fire in this situation, my concerns and those of the people who have a need for things like this have already been outright ignored entirely. People don’t have a better option, it was taken from them already.
And has easy access to guns never caused problems? Possibly more problems than they've solved?
My problem isn't with people deterring potential attackers or fighting off actual attackers. My concern is with the potential for misuse, and the fact that labeling this as some innocent means of self-defense is covering up the fact that it wouldn't be limited to being used exclusively by victims. That's just marketing. Any psycho could buy one of these.
Yup. That’s the available option.
Maybe we should try to address the issues with the longstanding preservation of rape culture. When that never happens, though, this is what we are left with. You’re mad at the pen, you should be mad at the person who threw the pen.
What attacker? There is no attacker, it's all a hypothetical situation meant to rile up people like you.
Also, fire doesn't just stay put. Yes, you might burn the attacker, but catch the building on fire killing people.
There is one benefit to this. If you're talking to a women at a bar and the people around you starting to move away, you know you're crossing some lines.
I am a man. I am buying six of these, a pair of rollerskates, a hockey stick, a mini fire extinguisher, and some string.
See you guys on TV later!
TFW the party's mage casts fireball in a small room...
Hey, idiot asses, it’s a meme. That’s just a dumb lighter for idiots you can get on temu. Are you really stupid enough to believe they are handing out flamethrowers because of a post on a meme instance?
dumb lighter for idiots
Meaning a tool idiots can use to set the dumbs on fire?
It says China is Selling
All you have to do is find it on temu or aliexpress to make that true.
I hear fire melts ICE
Not sure that's an acceptable level of violence for pervertry but who am I to get in the way of women's violent fantasies?
"I'll touch your dick if you take a hit of this vape"
I kind of get it. It looks a little bit scary so you flash it and some intrusive guy should get the message and fuck of. Probably as effective as spring knife would be but more fancy looking. As an actual self defense weapon it would be useless. I would be easy to close the distance fast and knock it out. I guess this is part of the appeal. It looks scary but is not really that dangerous. Knife would be a better weapon but that's exactly you don't want to carry a knife around. It turns any fight in a life or death situation while a big lighter like this is just a prop. Anyway, just get some pepper spray.
One of my lady friends practiced butterfly knife tricks for years just to intimidate creeps. I'm a little scared myself when I watch her play with them.
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