This house regrets the lack of date rape protection tools marketed to men

You get a call one day from a girl who’s stood you up three times. She says she’s back from out of town and asks if you’d like to get a drink on Saturday, and since you’ve never passed a stove you didn’t touch, plans are made. You meet at a bar. To your surprise, this time she shows up. You order a beer, start making small talk, seems like everything’s going well. You get up to pee, and when you get back, she’s ordered shots. She’s got a sly smirk on her face, a sly smirk you didn't make much of at the time, but that you'll remember until your dying day. You down the shot in one gulp and it tastes like sh!t. “What is this?” She responds, “G.” You think she’s talking about gin, and you don't know better because you've never had gin before. Of course, she’s actually talking about GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, commonly known as a date rape drug. A couple drinks later, the room is doing Inception things and you’re not sure what the fvck is going on. She takes you back to her place, semi-conscious, and once you’re alone, she forces more druggings down your lips. The whole night is a blur but you’ll never forget the moment she starts anally penetrating you – you’ve never done that before – and you’ve never felt so humiliated in your entire life. She knows what’s she’s doing, stimulates you in all the right places to get you hard, even though you want nothing more than for her to stop. Over the course of the night, you lose count of the times she rapes you. You’re sobbing and kicking and punching but you’re too weak to get her off you, and she doesn’t care – it’s all some sick roleplay in her mind. When it ends, you think about going to the police. But you don't, because what if all your bros find out you were raped by some chick? You don’t think you can handle the humiliation, and you don't think the police will even believe you, and you hate yourself and your life, and you spend the next 5 years depressed, scared to have sex, getting panic attacks anytime you meet a girl in a bar, and constantly ideating suicide. This debate is about trying to help men protect themselves from date rape. It's also a debate about sexism, because date rape protection tools are marketed towards women but not men, and that's a huge problem because male date rape is a very real thing.I’m going to make two arguments. First, I’ll argue that the lack of date rape protection tools for men violates basic notions of fairness or justice. To make this argument, I’ll show that the lack of tools for men perpetuates (and is predicated on) sexist gender stereotypes. Second, I’ll argue that the lack of date rape protection tools for men is a net harm to society. Each argument affirms independently. The former affirms even if the lack of date rape protection tools is a net benefit to society, while the latter affirms even if the lack of tools is fair and just. (1)Male rape is more common than most poeple think. It's so common that the Justice Department recently updated its definition of rape to include men. http://www.justice.gov...The definition update was in response to a study by the Justice Department that found 1 in 33 men have experienced “a completed or attempted rape.” https://www.ncjrs.gov...Another study found that 12.9% of men are sexually assaulted at least once during their lifetime. This same study also found that male victims were 3.4 times more likely to be depressed and 2.4 times more likely to ideate suicide. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...The male rape problem extends to date rape. Men are increasingly getting date raped. This is especially a problem in the gay community, which is known for its promiscuous hookup culture. Gay men are date raping other gay men, the same way the straight men date rape women. But the problem isn't limited to the gay community; men are getting date raped by women too. Now, there's a few date rape protection tools on the market, but they're marketed exclusively (or at least almost exclusively) towards women. For example, one of the tools is a nail polish that changes colors when it comes into contact with date rape drugs. A girl can just put her finger in the drink to check it for drugs.Developing and marketing date rape protection tools to women but not men is sexist. Marketing date rape protection tools exclusively to women sends a message that men aren't susceptible to date rape - and that messge is predicated on traditional (read: sexist) gender stereotypes. In this traditional worldview, men aren't victims of rape because women are smaller and weaker than me. Men aren't victims of rape because women aren't sexual in the same ways as men; they're not aggressors. The reality is differnet. Lots of men don't comply with these traditional gender roles. Lots of men are smaller/weaker than lots of women. Lots of men are feminine and lots of women are masculine.The lack of date rape protection tools for men doesn't just discriminate against straight men who don't comply with traditional gender roles - it also discriminates against gay men. The entire gay community is excluded from the category of rape - they're treated like non-entities.As such, marketing protection tools to women but not men is unfair to men and it's unjust - and it perpetuates sexist gender norms and contributes to homophobia. (2)The lack of date rape protection tools for men is also a net harm to society. This is because date rape protection tools will stop some rapes from happening. It will help some men protect themselves from date rape, both in a straight context and a gay context, and these men will benefit immensely by never being raped. It makes date rape harder to perpetrate.What are the harms of marketing date rape protection tools to men? None. What are the benefits? Men get access to protection, which in turns lowers the rate of successful date rapes against men. The other benefit is that it sends a message to men that it's okay for them to be a victim of date rape - that it's not an affront to their masculinity. This will help men report date rape more, because they won't feel like it's something completely unaccepted by society. Sending a message that men can and are raped, and that men can and should seek help (i.e. from date rape protection tools, or from the police after a rape) is a massive benefit to men who are actually raped. These men won't get as depressed, they won't ideate suicide, and so on. Remember, men who are raped are more likely to be depressed and ideate suicide than women. Marketing date rape protection tools may lower that discrepancy by helping men get less depressed.What are the harms of not marketing date rape protection tools to men? It communicates a message that men aren't ever victims of rape, which in turn contributes to the depression and suicide ideation experienced by men who are actually raped. It also means lots of men are gonna get date raped who might have prevented the date rape if they (a) knew male date rape was a thing, and (b) had bought protection tools to help them prevent date rape. What are the benefits of not marketing date rape protection tools to men? There are no benefits.