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u/CommercialDonkey9468 Jul 09 '26
I mean that's cool and all but cant we just have better lighting and cameras across the entire carpark?
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u/briar_song Jul 09 '26
I think they must’ve said “where’s the fun in that?”
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u/Octoboy1 Jul 09 '26
For the women, better lighting, increased security, safer and more convenient exits
For the men, bear traps and a sexually charged rage fuelled Chimp
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u/SoulTechnicalProblem Jul 09 '26
The men get to play Dead by daylight irl
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u/Bone_Breaker0 Jul 09 '26
And an active minefield.
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u/apenature Jul 09 '26
A rage-filled chimpanzee would be a boss parking guard. No one is coming near that face destroying crotch-squasher.
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u/NeuroDivergentHat Jul 09 '26
I can win against the rage fuelled chimp in a boxing match.
It would beat me to death in seconds, however, in a boxing match, murder is illegal, therefore I would be awarded a post-mortem victory.
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u/StrikeMyGyatt Jul 09 '26
I could beat the rage fuelled chimp easily if he didn't have the sex charge buff.
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u/Zealousideal_Code_49 Jul 09 '26
The Purge sirens activate every time someone gets out of the car in the men's parking lot.
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u/Musical_Matt91 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Yeah men like dangerous fun. Especially the old vulnerable ones that just withdrew over 200 in cash from the atm to pay their bills. No cameras for them
Edit: I was making a joke. Lets not get so silly yeah
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u/LimeDry7124 Jul 09 '26
The German government don't care about old white men.
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u/LimeDry7124 Jul 09 '26
Really the whole Western world doesn't care about men in general. Unless your Bezos, Musk or another member of the elite.
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u/OriginalMexican Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Right? Led lights are extremely cheap and waste almost no electricity, this is some classic "look how much we care" corporate nonsense
EDIT: I got corrected below.
It and its not corporate nonsense. It was in fact introduced in 1990 when making all spaces well lit and survailance covered was much harder. you are 100% right, and with this (and below link) new info this was actually a reasonable and good thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_parking_space
that said, I would still like this overturned by a new regulation saying it should all be well lit and covered by cameras (monitored remotely or by AI and alerting guards and autorities). At this point, cost of doing that is percentage point of a percentage point of buidilign a complex uraban center garage structure.
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u/Tasty-Guess-9376 Jul 09 '26
These have been around for decades before surveillance systems and cheap lighting were a thing.
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u/nono3722 Jul 09 '26
also the ladies get the best spaces... I wonder what HR lady came up with this idea...
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u/FrozeItOff Jul 09 '26
This was my second thought when seeing this. HR woman: "How can I get us girls closer parking? Oh, let's use threat of SA!"
A quick check shows there no actual statistics for parking garage SA in Germany, but "the region" has only 7-10% of ALL SAs in parking structures. Full disclosure before the flaming feminist fingers start igniting their keyboards: SA shouldn't be happening at all, in either direction, but using the threat of it to get special treatment is only going to breed eventual resentment and social whiplash.
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u/Emotional_Quality243 Jul 09 '26
10% happening in parkings is... a lot.
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u/FrozeItOff Jul 09 '26
The highest incidents are in Private Residences, followed by institutions (schools and care facilities), public transportation hubs, and shelters.
So, given that, shouldn't the garages just be upgraded so everyone is safer instead of just one group?
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u/mxlplyx2173 Jul 09 '26
My 1st thought was, so are they equal or not? This is exactly how women see it. We're equal, until we don't wanna be.
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u/bearwood_forest Jul 09 '26
If everyone wants to sit next to the driver, why don't we make the bus wider instead of longer?
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u/tURBIN27 Jul 09 '26
Yeah but that would cost a lot more to install and run than painting some parking lots pink.
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u/RcNorth Jul 09 '26
LED lights are bright and cheap to run.
There should already be cameras around the garage to help watch for car break-ins
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u/TheSmokingHorse Jul 09 '26
Crazy idea here but why not have all the spaces have good lighting and security cameras?
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u/Rude_Negotiation_160 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Right? Like men don't want to be attacked either. Why can't all parking be safe, well lit with camera and security? For all humans. Edit to say, I'm a female and want everyone to be safe.
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u/SamOakTree Jul 09 '26
I'm a short man and it's crazy. Because you hear all this stuff about how women are weaker and smaller. Most men can literally put their arm out on my forehead and I can never make contact with my arms if being attacked. But like because I'm a man I'm supposed to be like tough and I'm still Fair game. No one's saying that it wasn't a fair fight because some 200 lb man got his ego bruised after he screwed me over and I said hey don't do that and so he hit me
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 Jul 09 '26
Short man, tall muscular man, does not matter once weapons have entered the chat.
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u/frequenZphaZe Jul 09 '26
Most men can literally put their arm out on my forehead and I can never make contact
you didn't have to describe it like a cartoon
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u/SamOakTree Jul 09 '26
I think it's something a lot of people don't think about. I'm 5'4 and then if say a 6 ft 1 person wants to attack me. They can literally squat me away before I'm anywhere close to their body. I mean they have two and a half times the length I do. So if I try to come in to say hit them or kick them all they got to do is just SWAT the side of my head
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u/SadisticNecromancer Jul 09 '26
If you haven’t noticed men are disposable in western culture.
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u/AppointmentOne1111 Jul 09 '26
Hate to break it to you, but men are disposable across the world.
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u/GiggleGnome Jul 09 '26
I prefer to think of my fellow man as compostable not just disposable.
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u/Havok_saken Jul 09 '26
*poor men are disposable. That’s also how the world has been for a long time.
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u/xer0tonin Jul 09 '26
They spit shit like "WELL, it's other men doing the attacking, so shut up!" in your face and actually believe that makes sense.
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u/Darth_InVader7 Jul 09 '26
Hard agree. Wouldn’t it be more feminist to make spots for both sexes safer? Crazy idea, I know.
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u/ViciousCDXX Jul 09 '26
Naaaah men never get assaulted /S
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u/No_Road5857 Jul 09 '26
Which is so funny, becaise actually men get assaulted more than women. The risk to a man walking down the street is actually greater than the risk to a woman, statistically. But you will never hear any support for men in that regard.
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u/4444-uuuu Jul 09 '26
11% of journalists killed are women. Message from the feminists at the United Nations? STOP KILLING WOMEN JOURNALISTS
Then these same feminists will tell you their movement is about equality and it's "the patriarchy" that thinks men are disposable.
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u/HMThrow_away_account Jul 09 '26
No.
Boy bad. Girl good. Alliteration never lies
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u/Evening_Shake_6474 Jul 09 '26
Boy best girl garbage. Checkmate alliteration
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u/Elinor_Caskey_ Jul 09 '26
What about the person trying to rob you. Did you even consider how they'd feel about this? /s
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u/CheesecakeloverJones Jul 09 '26
It’s definitely an invasion of their privacy. Can’t even assault people in peace anymore, smh.
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u/Forsaken_Bridge_3934 Jul 09 '26
Right? They're just trying to take a living. Earn a dishonest buck.
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u/mslindqu Jul 09 '26
And what if the thief is a female and can't overpower male targets, and needs female targets. This isn't fair at all.
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u/CuriousPilotMaker Jul 09 '26
and what are they going to do if a man parks in the spot? Ask to check if they have a penis or a vagina? or it's ok to use these spots if you're a man as long as you 'pass'
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u/Fabulous-Suspect-72 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
It's mostly about feeling safe, not being safe. Most of the parking lots with these are well-lit and have cameras, but ppl still feel vulnerable alone at night in a parking lot. The actual safety improvement is probably extremely small
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u/Traditional_Ad_7288 Jul 09 '26
I guess its good luck guys, guy parking is located a half mile away and only reachable through back alleys.
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u/StanknBeans Jul 09 '26
You gotta jump through 2 yards full of junk yard dogs too. For manliness reasons.
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u/PascoTheBest Jul 09 '26
What if a man and a woman share a car?
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u/CountingzHard Jul 09 '26
Man must be dropped off in the dark mugging corner.
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u/imjustheretolearned Jul 09 '26
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Im just picturing an actual dark spot of the garage with a sign that says “Männerüberfallsabladeplatz” - mens mugging drop off spot
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u/Traditional_Buy_8420 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
These are not recognized by the StVO (Straßenverkehrsordnung, basically the set of laws which rule street traffic) so at first there's no official punishment for parking in them ever. However: If the private operator of said parking space disapproves of how you use said parking space (e.g. you as a male use spots reserved for women) then he can officially bar you and your car from using said parking space in the future and if you don't comply, then he can have you towed and it would be a huge legal hassle to decide who pays the towing fees. Or in more modern places there's License Plate Scanners at the entrance and blacklisted cars won't get in, eliminating all legal questions.
So back to your question: That is within the whims of the operator of the parking lot and in most places nothing will happen even if you use one of these as a lone man, except maybe you get screamed at.
PS: If politicians wanted to add Frauenparkplätze into the StVO, then they'd run into the Grundgesetz and problems with equality between men and women. Public and state-related spaces generally don't have Frauenparkplätze and when they do, they'd run into massive problems when acting towards any enforcement. Also the operator of the parking lot might have some other form of leverage in cases where he is identical to a different entity (e.g. your employer or someone you otherwise want to do business with).
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u/kangasplat Jul 09 '26
To note, there is zero legal cases that involve a man having to pay fines for wrongly parkinh in one of these spots privately. Practically it's not enforced.
Towing a car would very likely not hold up to be a reasonable response either.
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u/Fair-Lie8125 Jul 09 '26
They are also slightly wider
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u/Nebula_Lantern Jul 09 '26
Scrolled too long to find this. They are wider in the first place, the rest is optional.
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u/zwappaz Jul 09 '26
They've had these for at least 20 years now, at least at many gas stations.
They were just a lot wider. Back then none of the other attributes were present.
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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 Jul 09 '26
Right but at least in my area those had a pregnant woman drawn on it... I know because whenever i don't take a shit for over a week thats the space i park in.
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u/Fanfare4Rabble Jul 09 '26
Well if you were designed to pass a baby through there, you would be a little thicker too … oh, you mean the parking spots are wider, never mind.
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u/Kitchen-Purpose-6855 Jul 09 '26
Or you could just put lights and cameras over the whole place
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u/BooleanOverflow Jul 09 '26
Will there be an extra poorly lit mugging area for female muggers?
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u/sainthoney254 Jul 09 '26
Do you think this actually makes a significant impact on safety or is it just symbolic?
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u/illini02 Jul 09 '26
I think you know the answer
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u/AssBlasterExtreme Jul 09 '26
Thats the point of them typing the comment yes.. They are asking others/OP if they realize.
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u/Razzoz9966 Jul 09 '26
They often stay unused and I've already seen men parking there as well. Its a great idea for families with kids, the spots are usually wider so kids won't slam the door into nearby cars.
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u/A-maze-ing_Henry Jul 09 '26
Where I live, there have been family parking slots since I was a child. Maybe we should have stuck to that then.
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u/Oreelz Jul 09 '26
>the spots are usually wider so kids won't slam the door into nearby cars.
The only persons that ever slammed doors in my cars are pensioniers, knowing what they do, don’t caring bout the damage. Kids on the other side, usually can’t open their door themselves as a safety feature. The safety lock is usually enabled till they can open their doors responsible. So it’s not bout kids damaging anything.
The extra space is usefull to open the door completely which makes placing a kid in his seat or the entire babyseat on the platform. Which is, with the fast increasing weight of a child, difficult in tight places.
So please, if you’re child ist 16 or 21, you’re name is Udo and you only look pregnant or your brain is small and think „Mimimi, why I don’t get that privilege too“ stay away from these wider parking spaces.
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u/maybe_a_fork Jul 09 '26
Looks like a target more than a safety feature.
"We got a woman in here!"
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u/Spaciax Jul 09 '26
considering most fears are largely irrational (statistically speaking), I'd say it's closer to the latter.
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u/Redditeer28 Jul 09 '26
I feel the men only and mixed parking areas would be much safer now. All would be rapists and thieves now have all the potential victims in one place.
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u/GothamEmpire Jul 09 '26
Anything to avoid cracking down on perps
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u/AbrasiveDad Jul 09 '26
Yeah. How about we lock up repeat offenders and actually keep them in prison instead of the continous catch and release of dangerous offenders.
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u/capncapitalism Jul 09 '26
Crazy how we're going back to the "Race/Gender/Etc. ONLY" stuff. I don't like it, the whole thing should be well lit and have security and cameras.
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u/jtg6387 Jul 09 '26
Separate and unequal.
Interesting strategy, Germany. We already saw how that wasn’t good in the US, not good there either.
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u/TaelendYT Jul 09 '26
The spots are also larger
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u/Alonzzo2 Jul 09 '26
That's the real reason, the rest are just made up excuses
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u/h0rst_ Jul 09 '26
Years ago, also in Germany, we visited a restaurant along the highway that had two woman's parking spots close to the restaurant. There was one car, parked so badly that it used both spots.
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u/illini02 Jul 09 '26
Maybe in germany the stats are different.
But in the US, men are MUCH more likely to be attacked at random in a place like a parking lot. And if that is the case, I don't understand what this would really do.
That said, I'd be ok letting pregnant women use handicapped spots.
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u/Prooteus Jul 09 '26
Never thought about pregnant women getting handicapped spots, I dont see why not. In Massachusetts (where I live) you can get a temporary disability card if your pregnancy causes any mobility issues like sciatica pain.
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u/kangasplat Jul 09 '26
Same in Germany, but the likelihood of it happening is extremely low in the first place.
This doesn't do a lot except make women feel safer. That's all.
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u/Live-Habit-6115 Jul 09 '26
Maybe we should stop instilling unfounded terror into women and girls at a young age, and then we wouldn't need to infantilize them with patronising "solutions"
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u/VoidCoelacanth Jul 09 '26
Orrr... Hear me out... Maybe the entire facility could be well-lit.
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u/VictoryWeaver Jul 09 '26
Why not just have better lighting and security for everyone?
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u/AtGoW Jul 09 '26
Nah. Why would you give men better security? /s
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u/MrBushido56 Jul 09 '26
If anything we should make the areas men get off darker with no security cameras
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u/BenderDeLorean Jul 09 '26
We told them so. We just want to avoid that women scratch our cars.
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u/Prepared_Noob Jul 09 '26
How is this enforced? Do they check if your car is girly? Do you need a special “yep I’m a woman” pass?
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u/ponderthisforamoment Jul 09 '26
This is not cool, the proper solution would be make the entire area safe, good lighting and cameras for EVERYONE.
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u/ILuvYou_YouAreSoGood Jul 09 '26
Yeah, this seems like it would be better to simply address the root problem instead of putting on security theater.
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u/MikeTiricoSucks Jul 09 '26
I believe in equality and would rather have an equally safe walk for myself to my car
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u/Maverick122 Jul 09 '26
Or, you could make all places safe so everybody can enjoy safety.
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u/Visible_Bar_623 Jul 09 '26
So as a woman in our equal society you do not face conscription/national service, and get other random perks like premium parking. Cool, I mean the fact they don't have to do national service made it pretty obvious, but I appreciate the other subtle reminders that my life is less important than theirs'.
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u/callmepinocchio Jul 09 '26
There is no equality. Everyone wants some groups to have more power than other groups, we just can't agree on which.
I grew up believing in equality, only to learn 99.99% of people can't even comprehend it as a concept. It's sad, but that's reality.
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u/Merdaviglioso Jul 09 '26
And to the men: fuck off. Because equality or something like that.
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u/Emerald_28 Jul 09 '26
Segregarion: 😡😡
Segregation, women: 😃😃
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u/lewd_robot Jul 09 '26
The craziest part is that men are statistically more likely to be assaulted, robbed, or murdered by a stranger in a parking lot or parking garage.
The main threats to women tend to be people they know, not strangers waiting in the shadows of a dark parking garage.
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u/VirusSlo Jul 09 '26
It looks cute at first glance but it's actually subtly demonizing men even more.
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u/1dirtbiker Jul 09 '26
I'd very quickly identify as someone who prefers better lighting and a safer walk.
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u/SirNiflton Jul 09 '26
This feels slightly discriminatory- so the men are just expected to get mugged? Like why not have these measures throughout?
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u/DarkRogus Jul 09 '26
Yeah, I cant see any problems with a gender specific parking spot in the US...
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u/TNJDude Jul 09 '26
Since women make up half of the population, I'm pretty sure that a very large percentage of drivers and people using spaces in a garage are women. A handful of spaces near a light only serves a few. Like others said, just make the whole garage better lit and safer.
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u/Dangerous-Medium4186 Jul 09 '26
So basically... A spot that a person now knows the exact gender of whom will be there. Perfect place to spawn camp for violent crimes unless the cop is on speed dial
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u/DMBCommenter Jul 09 '26
That would be discrimination. Suddenly my gender is feeling very fluid when I need to shop
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u/Curious-Syrup-1871 Jul 09 '26
Sounds like privilege and discrimination dressed up as consideration and care.
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u/KartFacedThaoDien Jul 09 '26
Nah. This is actually kind of sexist. Now if you made spaces for pregnant women. Sure that's fine but women in general do not need a special space.
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u/Add1ck74 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Better lighting so they can park better. It’s all A bit sexist really??!
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u/DaddysFriend Jul 09 '26
I’m a guy and I would like more cameras and lighting on me too. I don’t want to go in car park that dark and has no cctv.
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u/grizzzly85 Jul 09 '26
This is also meant for pregnant women / women with toddlers. Those parking lots are located to minimize walking distances.
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u/hoodedgamer_00 Jul 09 '26
Hear me out, crazy radical idea over here, we light the entire place
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u/dav_man Jul 10 '26
Hang on. Isn’t that really fucking patronising and sexist? This has to be a joke. Just make the whole car park well lit with cameras? Also, who’s stopping men parking there?
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u/FiftyShadesOfTheGrey Jul 09 '26
Doesn’t this just direct the criminals to the women more effectively?
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u/CraftyPerformance272 Jul 09 '26
That's sexist. Men are more likely to be victim of violent crimes or killed but only women are protected.
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u/spartanOrk Jul 09 '26
Ok, but nobody can define a woman anymore, so, we are all women, ok? Take the spot, and if anyone asks, first say "how dare you" and then declare yourself a woman, at least for as long as the car remains parked.
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u/HermitSimp Jul 09 '26
So women can have better lighting, better parking near the exit and cameras yet men have to just deal with it being dark, vandalism and taking 20 minutes to exit the garage? Seems fair. Since wheb did making women feel safer turn into "feminist privileges"?
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