{"id":75,"date":"2008-03-10T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=75"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:05:21","slug":"from-the-xx-factor-rape-proof-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2008\/03\/10\/from-the-xx-factor-rape-proof-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"From The XX Factor, \u201cRape-Proof Pants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For <em>Slate<\/em>, Ellen Tarlin writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/277263.stm\">BBC News <\/a>reports that a court in Rome ruled that \u201cWomen in jeans \u2018cannot be raped.\u2019 \u201c What a wonderful coup this information will be for parents of girls. Just imagine, you no longer have to worry about preserving your daughter\u2019s virtue; just buy her a pair of jeans. And to think of all the things that young women have had to avoid for years: staying out late, walking home alone after dark, perusing dark alleys, dressing too provocatively, letting a boy drive her home. No longer a worry! Just put some jeans on under your prom dress! This could also be a terrific boon to the clothing industry, although I suspect that while chastity jeans would be a big seller among parents, not so much for the teens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Slate, Ellen Tarlin writes: BBC News reports that a court in Rome ruled that \u201cWomen in jeans \u2018cannot be raped.\u2019 \u201c What a wonderful coup this information will be for parents of girls. Just imagine, you no longer have to worry about preserving your daughter\u2019s virtue; just buy her a pair of jeans. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2008\/03\/10\/from-the-xx-factor-rape-proof-pants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From The XX Factor, \u201cRape-Proof Pants\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,88,90,105],"tags":[13,14,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}