• whiwake@lemmy.cafe
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        14 hours ago

        Wow. So, it’s a whistle that you keep on you when you walk down dark streets at night so you can blow if you are in trouble (rape, or otherwise) and ideally someone would come help or call for help or… whatever… so you don’t get raped

        • Icytrees@sh.itjust.works
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          13 hours ago

          Well that’s kinda nuts. At some jobs we used “safety whistles” but they were pretty ineffective because everyone just thought they were excited birds. Granted, we were in the forest.

          I can’t think of a situation where I’d hear a whistle at night and assume someone was getting raped.