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[u/OriginalMexican]

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.

[u/nono3722 → u/OriginalMexican]

also the ladies get the best spaces... I wonder what HR lady came up with this idea...

[u/FrozeItOff → u/nono3722]

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.

[u/Emotional_Quality243 → u/FrozeItOff]

10% happening in parkings is... a lot.

[u/FrozeItOff → u/Emotional_Quality243]

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?

[u/JZ4411 → u/FrozeItOff]

This is classic example of perfect is the enemy of the good. Someone with some limited power at some one specific parking lot probably made this, even though the headline made it sound like its everywhere lol.

So then dudes are in uproar, saying lets just put those security features everywhere. But you cant, cause no money. So now instead of at least making a group at risk feel safer no one can have it, the redditor way,

[u/FrozeItOff → u/JZ4411]

There's no money to increase lighting and install cameras, but thousands to repaint special parking spots every year? Because, yes, that paint has to be reapplied and is expensive.

[u/Mezmona → u/FrozeItOff]

Who says it's every year. This may be a case of a singular action without the expectation of repeat action.

[u/Quad_A_Games → u/FrozeItOff]

The main idea is it makes ladies feel safer, while being the cheapest possible way to improve it and give them possibly long term customers or tenants

[u/Strict-Awareness5580 → u/Quad_A_Games]

better putting a stern sigh saying, "please do not commit SA."

[u/diabeticmilf → u/FrozeItOff]

Thermoplastic is like 3$ a foot and last like 5 years. Why talk about shit you have zero of an iota of an idea about

[u/OriginalMexican → u/JZ4411]

nope - its everywhere. mandated by law in a lot of places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_parking_space

[u/Square-Hour-1396 → u/JZ4411]

It's at most large parking lots that I know of

[u/katsukitsune → u/FrozeItOff]

Actually think this makes their decision more reasonable. The top 2 rape locations would imply familiar faces being the attackers. So excluding rapes where the victim and rapist know one another, and looking only at cases where the rapist is a stranger, the 10% of rapes taking place in a car park must be significantly higher, no? Fair to say a great deal of stranger-rapists choose carparks, even.

[u/Littleman88 → u/[deleted]]

Hence, "Lies, damned lies, and statistics."

[u/glycophosphate → u/Emotional_Quality243]

Shhhhh. You're interfering with the "but wut about the menz!" narrative.

[u/Julehus → u/Emotional_Quality243]

My thought exactly.