“Today the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, with the Department of Health and Human Services, announced a contest to develop a smartphone app to help students better protect themselves in risky situations. The effort is dubbed Apps Against Abuse. . . . The competition calls for developers to build an app that lets women designate friends or emergency contacts and check in with them during at-risk situations. The app would also provide fast access to information and resources for dealing with sexual assault or dating violence.”
Wait, just women? Isn’t that sexist?
While the White House is busy focusing on the important issue of student sexual misbehavior, maybe we need an app to protect male students against false rape accusations, too? As Emily Bazelon said after the Hofstra bogus-rape incident: “The weird lesson for men who have group sex in bathrooms: Film it on your cell phone.”