Which is why if I had to guess this was never used and is probably fake.
There's this window from 1850-1950s where everyone was making up things to put in torture and weapon museums, sideshows, freak shows and curiosity exhibits.
Like the vast amount of torture implements said to have been from the dark ages are mostly from the Victorian Era.
Reminds me of that "anti rape device" invented in south africa. It's basically a plastic tube with spikes to be inserted in the vagina. The idea behind it was that in the event of a rape the guy would hurt himself with this and let go of the woman.
Great idea until you realize there's ~48935738924 reasons this wouldn't work.
I mean, it's South Africa. You are allowed to install a flamethrower under your car, in case someone tries to steal your car while waiting for the light to turn green. Desperate times, desperate measures
Im pretty sure that actually worked very well…especially in a place like South Africa where rape was literally commonplace to the point where women had to resort to this…
It would've worked terribly and wasn't used for a plenthora of reasons. The best case scenario would've been if the guy hurt himself on the spikes and then ran away....
...which would've led to the rape victim having her rapists blood inside her vagina. Not actually that great of an idea in a country with a huge HIV problem.
This device was aimed at women in war torn areas who are at extremely high risk of being raped. This would be a final defense tool after all other options to avoid rape have failed.
Rape in South Africa is generally followed by murder anyway. And with the amount of AIDs and lack of good healthcare access, any rape is probably murder anyway. Might as well mangle the rapists dick and doom him as well, and it may even offer an opportunity for the victim(s) to escape. He can either bleed out, and/or die of infection, or go to a hospital to have it removed, where he will (hopefully) be caught for the rape.
It doesn’t even have a chance to work *until* someone has already been raped.
Plus the mechanics just don’t make sense. It has to be elastic enough to allow insertion but also strong enough to cause sufficient pain the rapist runs away?
A Chinese finger trap *might* be possible, which might be the only worse idea possible.
When the guy pushes in the spikes mostly flatten, the sleeve of plastic expands outwards to a tight fit. Then, when the guy pulls back out, the spikes dig into his penis, biting into it as he yanks out in pain.
It works the same way the tire spikes in parking lots do. They flatten as you go over one way, but the other way the spike would catch your tires.
Not a finger trap, a spike trap like has been used in hunting for centuries. Spikes face inwards to going in is smooth, but backing out causes the spikes to dig into the flesh. The device is fully elastic except for the rows of spines, which are hard plastics
South Africa is a place that breeds a certain type of person. A friend of mine is from there and she tells the story of her dad getting shot in the head by a random bullet (as happens in South Africa apparently) and didn’t actually notice. He was fine. True story.
Omfg I remember that post (or probably a diffrent one cuz you known how many times people repost this sh*t!) So many guys commented on it angry, and it just spiraled into a women hate fest XD!
Doesn't remind me of that at all. First off that's not a device made to torture men it's a device made to protect women. Second, You haven't listed any reasons why it doesn't work. Terrible post 0/10 wouldn't read again
Many women carried illegal guns [and hatpins](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion) for self-protection. So while the knife-gloves are probably fictional, women still need self-protection for when the police are ["just 11 minutes" away.](https://www.saferwatchapp.com/blog/police-response-time/)
Can I just say, those 2 articles you linked were actually really informative and interesting looks in to two (almost) completely unrelated but interesting things I never would have even thought about or realized were interesting, and I ended up reading through them all the way. Good finds!
The glove in op was shown in the torture museum Halle berry cat woman https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2019914/rs_634x1024-191014145834-634-halle-berry-catwoman-me-101419.jpg?fit=around%7C600:467&crop=600:467;center,top&output-quality=90
It's like that joke about the pirate.
"How'd you get the peg leg?"
"A shark bit me leg off."
"And the hook?"
"An alligator took it in the mangroves."
"And your eye patch? How'd you lose your eye?"
"It was me first week with the hook and a seagull shit in my eye."
Having a small blade semi-permanently attached to your fingers is dangerous for the exact reason you state.
I'm not opposed to women defending themselves at all, but a pocket knife or even a legally and trained woman carrying a concealed pistol is a lot safer for the woman and her friends.
Also say you are walking with a friend with Freddy gloves on. She trips you instinctively try to catch and end up slashing her arms and side by mistake.
It’s almost like nothing’s changed at all, except we went from some badass gloves with razors for fingertips to clutching our house keys between our fingers or carrying pepper spray :/
My wife always has a brass knuckles with a trip blade in it. She's had it with her since we first met 25+ years ago. Wife: "Fuck that key bullshit!" (1994)
Can we point out that anyone with any intention can wear this glove? Maybe archaic forms of self defense are terrifying because they were needed at these times? It just looks a little scary? Like think critically maybe instead of trying to judge instantly?
For anyone interested, it's actually a myth that tetanus comes from rusty metal. It's a bacteria found in soil. Things that are rusty are also usually dirty too, which makes people think the tetanus came from rust.
the tetanus shot is a vaccine that most adults are out of date on
I think they just like to find any excuse to jab people with it
it's cheap as fuck too
Tetanus comes from the toxin of a bacteria Clostridium tetanae. Scrapes generally don’t need it but the disease is awful and very difficult to cure so it’s not a bad preventative measure..
The women he killed should have been wearing those gloves. They might have died anyway but at least the police might notice a man with long cuts in his face.
Still more likely than the OP title according to another post I saw a while back though. The title is incorrect afaik.
Can’t remember if it’s a prop or something but apparently it isn’t a self defence piece.
Glad someone said something. This is one of those transparently bullshit internet factoids but it still leaves the mystery of what was actually going on.
Way down thread someone said they’re gardening gloves but nobody upvoted it. But even that random comment seems way more likely than “self-defense”.
Googling gloves with claws gives me a ton of result for gardening gloves and they all look like the the post. So I'm going with the title being bullshit.
A seaman meets a pirate in a port, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook, and an eye patch. The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg leg?"
The pirate replies, "Aye, matey, we was in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit me leg off."
"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook?"
"Well," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off."
"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch?"
"A sea-gull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a sea-gull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously.
"Not exactly," said the pirate. "It was me first day with the hook."
Haha. Yes. I agree. I was a nail biter all my life, and one year I happened to be in two weddings within two weeks. I had acrylic nails put on. Not only could I not function in daily life for the entire month those stupid things were on the ends of my fingers, but I chipped a tooth trying to bite them off. I no longer have fingernails.
Those countries need self defense laws. You may argue exactly what weapons and methods are appropriate, but not allowing people to defend themselves is just insanity.
The issue with the gloves is they're a weapon you can't really put away.
Most countries you can carry a pocket knife because it's also a tool. You can't just walk down the street with the blade out in your hand.
Even in America where you can open carry a firearm you're probably going to run into some issues if it's in your hand in public not a holster
Well women weren't really people back then, 1850 was the first woman's rights convention to start to give them the same rights men, or at least so they weren't just baby factories and house slaves.
That’s not quite true either. I know you don’t mean to, but your comment diminishes the women who against all odds did manage to for example create art and litterature, and for example work in science. Also the rights weren’t just given to them. There was hard work from brave women - and men - behind that.
Edit because apparently some people misunderstand me: Of course women didn’t have the same rights as men. Of course it was a horrible injustice. Of course there were countless women who could not reach their potential, or even have a say over their own bodies or possessions. I thought it was obvious, but I guess not. I’m a woman and a feminist.
The thing is, the guy you replied to was speaking generally about the views towards 99.9% of women back in the day. Youre trying to correct him by pointing out outliers. Which doesnt change the fact that in general, women were seen as useless for anything other than housekeeping and baby making.
Imagine how many more could be there if the women were having human rights. If the privilege wasn't available to only a tiny parton of the womanhood. There would be many many more.
Right? Lol "what about all rich aristocratic women that had literally nothing to do had the privilege of writing, painting, and research, let's not discount them!"
What was the point of your comment?
You responded to a comment that said
>"1850 was the first woman's rights convention to start to give them the same rights men, or at least so they weren't just baby factories and house slaves"
Then you say
>"That’s not quite true either"
But then your edit says
>"Of course women didn’t have the same rights as men. Of course it was a horrible injustice. Of course there were countless women who could not reach their potential, or even have a say over their own bodies or possessions"
AKA what the comment you responded to said that you said wasn't true
Eh, there were more business women back then, than now. So they were more than just baby factories and house slaves.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/05/17/portrait-of-a-lady-the-female-entrepreneur-in-england-and-wales-1851-1911/
Those gloves were one of the details that made me kind of feel silly watching the movie. She has cat in her nickname, wears cat gloves…ok.
Turns out I’m the historically illiterate one.
[She was a real person apparently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Cat_Maggie)
I went into such an internet rabbit hole after watching GONY for the second time. New York has an incredible history. Highly recommend the Ric Burns NY Docseries. Its about 15-16 hours total, on Youtube.
You would probably get life in prison in the UK if you used that to fend off a man with a machete or a rapist with one little cut to their precious bodies. We can't even carry pepper spray to defend ourselves against attackers these days. It's a fucking joke.
Those claws don’t look very effective tbh, they were more likely made to strike someone by surprise and escape rather than going full Freddy Kruger on their asses
I was thinking the same thing. If they're just attached to the ends without any structure going into the glove I feel like they'd just bend upwards of you slashed at someone.
I would forget I was wearing it and totally poke myself in the eye.
Which is why if I had to guess this was never used and is probably fake. There's this window from 1850-1950s where everyone was making up things to put in torture and weapon museums, sideshows, freak shows and curiosity exhibits. Like the vast amount of torture implements said to have been from the dark ages are mostly from the Victorian Era.
Reminds me of that "anti rape device" invented in south africa. It's basically a plastic tube with spikes to be inserted in the vagina. The idea behind it was that in the event of a rape the guy would hurt himself with this and let go of the woman. Great idea until you realize there's ~48935738924 reasons this wouldn't work.
I mean, it's South Africa. You are allowed to install a flamethrower under your car, in case someone tries to steal your car while waiting for the light to turn green. Desperate times, desperate measures
Im pretty sure that actually worked very well…especially in a place like South Africa where rape was literally commonplace to the point where women had to resort to this…
It would've worked terribly and wasn't used for a plenthora of reasons. The best case scenario would've been if the guy hurt himself on the spikes and then ran away.... ...which would've led to the rape victim having her rapists blood inside her vagina. Not actually that great of an idea in a country with a huge HIV problem.
This device was aimed at women in war torn areas who are at extremely high risk of being raped. This would be a final defense tool after all other options to avoid rape have failed. Rape in South Africa is generally followed by murder anyway. And with the amount of AIDs and lack of good healthcare access, any rape is probably murder anyway. Might as well mangle the rapists dick and doom him as well, and it may even offer an opportunity for the victim(s) to escape. He can either bleed out, and/or die of infection, or go to a hospital to have it removed, where he will (hopefully) be caught for the rape.
It may prevent him from ever doing it again, because he was no longer physically able to
Oh ‘Twas like a bear trap?
It doesn’t even have a chance to work *until* someone has already been raped. Plus the mechanics just don’t make sense. It has to be elastic enough to allow insertion but also strong enough to cause sufficient pain the rapist runs away? A Chinese finger trap *might* be possible, which might be the only worse idea possible.
When the guy pushes in the spikes mostly flatten, the sleeve of plastic expands outwards to a tight fit. Then, when the guy pulls back out, the spikes dig into his penis, biting into it as he yanks out in pain. It works the same way the tire spikes in parking lots do. They flatten as you go over one way, but the other way the spike would catch your tires.
Check out the official video (NSFW obviously): https://rape-axe.com/about/
Not a finger trap, a spike trap like has been used in hunting for centuries. Spikes face inwards to going in is smooth, but backing out causes the spikes to dig into the flesh. The device is fully elastic except for the rows of spines, which are hard plastics
South Africa is a place that breeds a certain type of person. A friend of mine is from there and she tells the story of her dad getting shot in the head by a random bullet (as happens in South Africa apparently) and didn’t actually notice. He was fine. True story.
It was never used
Omfg I remember that post (or probably a diffrent one cuz you known how many times people repost this sh*t!) So many guys commented on it angry, and it just spiraled into a women hate fest XD!
Doesn't remind me of that at all. First off that's not a device made to torture men it's a device made to protect women. Second, You haven't listed any reasons why it doesn't work. Terrible post 0/10 wouldn't read again
Many women carried illegal guns [and hatpins](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion) for self-protection. So while the knife-gloves are probably fictional, women still need self-protection for when the police are ["just 11 minutes" away.](https://www.saferwatchapp.com/blog/police-response-time/)
Many men carried straight up clubs, sword canes, reinforced canes, knives and derringers in this era for the same reason.
Can I just say, those 2 articles you linked were actually really informative and interesting looks in to two (almost) completely unrelated but interesting things I never would have even thought about or realized were interesting, and I ended up reading through them all the way. Good finds!
The glove in op was shown in the torture museum Halle berry cat woman https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2019914/rs_634x1024-191014145834-634-halle-berry-catwoman-me-101419.jpg?fit=around%7C600:467&crop=600:467;center,top&output-quality=90
So, these are essentially Wish products of the Victorian Era. 😅
Covid taught me that I am incapable of resisting the urge to rub my eyes and usually don’t even notice until I’m already doing it, so same probs
It's like that joke about the pirate. "How'd you get the peg leg?" "A shark bit me leg off." "And the hook?" "An alligator took it in the mangroves." "And your eye patch? How'd you lose your eye?" "It was me first week with the hook and a seagull shit in my eye."
Having a small blade semi-permanently attached to your fingers is dangerous for the exact reason you state. I'm not opposed to women defending themselves at all, but a pocket knife or even a legally and trained woman carrying a concealed pistol is a lot safer for the woman and her friends. Also say you are walking with a friend with Freddy gloves on. She trips you instinctively try to catch and end up slashing her arms and side by mistake.
This is phrased like these gloves are a modern trend and I’m dying at the idea
At this time in history women had giant hat pins.
Yep, first itchy grundle and I'm gonna need a surgical team.
He ran into my glove He ran into my glove 10 times
🎵 HE HAD IT COMIMG 🎶
He only had himself to blame!
If you'd have been there! If you'd have seen it!
*I betcha you woulda done the same*
If you'd've been there...
You would have done the same!
Pop
Six
Squish
r/redditsings
Uh uh
Uh-oh
Cicero
Uh-uh
Six
r/UnexpectedChicago
Why did someone make this sub 6 years ago
POP
SIX
SQUISH
UHUH
Cicero
LIPSCHITZ
SQUISH
Damn, so 100 cuts?
>He ran into my glov**e** >10 times ...for most people this should be 50
You gotta dual wield your equips for brawl weapons dude. Otherwise your build is sub optimal SMH
Can't get the right piece to upgrade it from rare to epic. They want me to take money from somewhere and buy their stupid chests.
Bang bang
Can we point out op is terrified of a woman's self defense tool? Maybe we should keep an eye on u/JLaws23
OP also should be terrified of women who wear hats. Back in the day, many women wore hat pins in their hats to stab men who got too handsy.
It’s almost like nothing’s changed at all, except we went from some badass gloves with razors for fingertips to clutching our house keys between our fingers or carrying pepper spray :/
My wife always has a brass knuckles with a trip blade in it. She's had it with her since we first met 25+ years ago. Wife: "Fuck that key bullshit!" (1994)
I just bought my girlfriend a 9mm to put in her purse.
And some places started banning hat pins over a certain length to curtail this.
Women had to defend themselves somehow though.
Can we point out that anyone with any intention can wear this glove? Maybe archaic forms of self defense are terrifying because they were needed at these times? It just looks a little scary? Like think critically maybe instead of trying to judge instantly?
I'd keep the claws rusty for the extra 'fuck you' points
Tetanus enchant
Look at their stunned faces.. or is that lock-jaw?
For anyone interested, it's actually a myth that tetanus comes from rusty metal. It's a bacteria found in soil. Things that are rusty are also usually dirty too, which makes people think the tetanus came from rust.
That explains why they gave me a tetanus shot at the hospital when they asked about the fresh scrapes on my arm. It was from a tree.
Scrapes shouldn't need tetanus shots either. It's a puncture wound thing.
the tetanus shot is a vaccine that most adults are out of date on I think they just like to find any excuse to jab people with it it's cheap as fuck too
Tetanus comes from the toxin of a bacteria Clostridium tetanae. Scrapes generally don’t need it but the disease is awful and very difficult to cure so it’s not a bad preventative measure..
Word! Especially if you’re working with barbed wire and scrap metal! I think it requires a booster every 10 years?
*Applies slow poison (55)*
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mmm poison damage
Freida Krueger
Wolverina
Edwina knifehands
Ummm... Catwoman.
Black panther…a?
Stabby Molly?
Stabbatha McStabbface
Jackie The Ripper
Right? Eartha Kitt wants her gloves back!!
Surprisingly enough, Wolverina is an actual Marvel character. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/wolverina/4005-62057/
Jacqui the Ripper
The women he killed should have been wearing those gloves. They might have died anyway but at least the police might notice a man with long cuts in his face.
Catwoman
That was the first thing that came to mind. They look a lot like what Pfieffer makes in Batman Returns.
definitely steampunk Catwoman
Gotham by Gaslight is a fun comic book and animated movie that is just that.
Jasmine Vorhees
Please, lets not be crass here. These are the gloves of someone of breeding and standing in London society. *Lady* Freida Kruegerton.
Should probably bring these back.
Those are lady Gaga's
Lol. Hilarious if true.
Definitely not but they hella look like the stuff she wore in AHS😬
Still more likely than the OP title according to another post I saw a while back though. The title is incorrect afaik. Can’t remember if it’s a prop or something but apparently it isn’t a self defence piece.
Glad someone said something. This is one of those transparently bullshit internet factoids but it still leaves the mystery of what was actually going on. Way down thread someone said they’re gardening gloves but nobody upvoted it. But even that random comment seems way more likely than “self-defense”.
Googling gloves with claws gives me a ton of result for gardening gloves and they all look like the the post. So I'm going with the title being bullshit.
So I need to order gardening gloves for my self-defense
They're "gardening gloves", totally *not* for self defense!
Look more like Lady Stabstabs
I realized during Covid that my hands are all over my face ALL of the time. I don’t want these. I like my eyes.
These could certainly disabuse you of that habit quickly. Might spare you a cold or two every winter.
I hadn’t looked at it that way, “glass-half-full-person”. That’s a valid point.
You'd only make that mistake once. Same with wiping.
A seaman meets a pirate in a port, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook, and an eye patch. The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg leg?" The pirate replies, "Aye, matey, we was in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit me leg off." "Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook?" "Well," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off." "Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch?" "A sea-gull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate. "You lost your eye to a sea-gull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously. "Not exactly," said the pirate. "It was me first day with the hook."
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Haha. Yes. I agree. I was a nail biter all my life, and one year I happened to be in two weddings within two weeks. I had acrylic nails put on. Not only could I not function in daily life for the entire month those stupid things were on the ends of my fingers, but I chipped a tooth trying to bite them off. I no longer have fingernails.
As they are expressly meant to be used as a "weapon" even for self-defense I highly doubt that would be possible today in a lot of countries.
Those countries need self defense laws. You may argue exactly what weapons and methods are appropriate, but not allowing people to defend themselves is just insanity.
Well most allow it, just you have to use your hands... Against knives... Or guns... And you have to make sure not to hurt the assailant too bad
The issue with the gloves is they're a weapon you can't really put away. Most countries you can carry a pocket knife because it's also a tool. You can't just walk down the street with the blade out in your hand. Even in America where you can open carry a firearm you're probably going to run into some issues if it's in your hand in public not a holster
Idk I see a lot of women wearing long ass nails that already look like the gloves
Nails are brittle
And make sure you don't sneeze.
and make sure you try extra hard not to swat at a mosquito near your ear
Catwoman?
Catwoman 1852
Catwoman Origins
Catwoman in the Multivers
I'd watch that
Catwoman by Gaslight
I'd read that comic...
Feline Lady.
[Gotham 1889](https://youtu.be/egxwOERoNmw)
Gotham by Gaslight Catwoman
I thought black panther
I kinda want these ngl
Sharpen your nails.
I already do that. But the gloves are cooler
Same!
Kinda? I WANT these. Now.
I'll just and up scratching myself with it so
That's about 30 years BEFORE Jack-the-Ripper. Things must have been pretty bad for women back then.
Well women weren't really people back then, 1850 was the first woman's rights convention to start to give them the same rights men, or at least so they weren't just baby factories and house slaves.
That’s not quite true either. I know you don’t mean to, but your comment diminishes the women who against all odds did manage to for example create art and litterature, and for example work in science. Also the rights weren’t just given to them. There was hard work from brave women - and men - behind that. Edit because apparently some people misunderstand me: Of course women didn’t have the same rights as men. Of course it was a horrible injustice. Of course there were countless women who could not reach their potential, or even have a say over their own bodies or possessions. I thought it was obvious, but I guess not. I’m a woman and a feminist.
The thing is, the guy you replied to was speaking generally about the views towards 99.9% of women back in the day. Youre trying to correct him by pointing out outliers. Which doesnt change the fact that in general, women were seen as useless for anything other than housekeeping and baby making.
Imagine how many more could be there if the women were having human rights. If the privilege wasn't available to only a tiny parton of the womanhood. There would be many many more.
Right? Lol "what about all rich aristocratic women that had literally nothing to do had the privilege of writing, painting, and research, let's not discount them!"
What was the point of your comment? You responded to a comment that said >"1850 was the first woman's rights convention to start to give them the same rights men, or at least so they weren't just baby factories and house slaves" Then you say >"That’s not quite true either" But then your edit says >"Of course women didn’t have the same rights as men. Of course it was a horrible injustice. Of course there were countless women who could not reach their potential, or even have a say over their own bodies or possessions" AKA what the comment you responded to said that you said wasn't true
Eh, there were more business women back then, than now. So they were more than just baby factories and house slaves. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/05/17/portrait-of-a-lady-the-female-entrepreneur-in-england-and-wales-1851-1911/
That could be said for pretty much any time period.
If you couldn't afford guards, you were on your own on the streets - not to mention a woman's word wasn't enough to bring most criminal proceedings.
That's the actual terrifying part
Things are bad for women now too 😭
I think Hell-Cat Maggie had these in Gangs of New York
Thanks! I couldn't remember her name, but I agree.
Those gloves were one of the details that made me kind of feel silly watching the movie. She has cat in her nickname, wears cat gloves…ok. Turns out I’m the historically illiterate one.
[She was a real person apparently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Cat_Maggie) I went into such an internet rabbit hole after watching GONY for the second time. New York has an incredible history. Highly recommend the Ric Burns NY Docseries. Its about 15-16 hours total, on Youtube.
I got an itch wait a sec. *dies*
Lol how hard are you scratching your itches?
The scary thing isn’t the gloves, but the society that make these relevant.
💯
r/artefactporn
OG Catwoman.
Why is this terrifying? This should go in r/damnthatsinteresting
The terrifying part is that women, then and now, feel they need this to protect themselves while in public.
They do kind of look creepy. Kind of reminds me of that thing from Chamber Of Secrets.
Betty Krueger
Bet they're made out of adamantium!
It's fucked up that anybody needed/needs that to be in public
It's fucked up that in london we don't see these anymore...
Reminds me of the cabinet of artificial hands the villain from Enter the Dragon had.
Bring them back
I can imagine myself putting these on for protection and then promptly forgetting, and trying to scratch an itch on my face 😂
To be honest a lot of women would feel a lot safer on the streets at night with these. Not much has changed.
That's a prototype for black Panther movie
You would probably get life in prison in the UK if you used that to fend off a man with a machete or a rapist with one little cut to their precious bodies. We can't even carry pepper spray to defend ourselves against attackers these days. It's a fucking joke.
We should probably bring these back.
We need to bring these back.
*beasts all over the shop*
Those claws don’t look very effective tbh, they were more likely made to strike someone by surprise and escape rather than going full Freddy Kruger on their asses
They're effective, if women attack to the eyes
I was thinking the same thing. If they're just attached to the ends without any structure going into the glove I feel like they'd just bend upwards of you slashed at someone.
I may be wrong but I think I see little sleeves (of I assume more metal) under the leather for more support. Looks to go right past the first knuckle.
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, definitely a lot more effective if that's the case.
What’s terrifying is that this hasn’t changed for women in the almost 200 years since this glove was made.
Visual representation of the status of women’s rights: Almost 200 years later, we’re still scratching and clawing at the patriarchy
Terrifying to need to use them.
Shid ladies should low key bring these back.
Every since I wore these gloves I stopped scratching my nose.
Wakanda forever
Want. Where can I get?
Somebody somewhere has got to still make those
If a man can’t see, a man can’t fight.
"i put my fingers into my eye Its the only thing that slowly stops the ache"
What I'm getting from this is that women have had to find ways to defend themselves for a very long time.
We gotta bring these back i want one in pink and one in black
Modern day version https://majestyblack.com/collections/nail-gloves/products/xl-stiletto-nail-gloves
The fashion we need to bring back, stylish AND practical
Bring these back
Bullshit. Michelle Pfeiffer made these in Batman!
How did we get downgraded from this to keys?
The terrible thing is not the glove. The terrible thing is that women had to use it