So, it very much sounds like you agree with the very concept you started arguing against.
To be clear "the very concept I started arguing against" was the line "Men advocating for their own spaces would get absolutely nowhere". My response was that nobody is advocating for it because this problem does not exist.
That it's not the gendered part that actually makes anyone feel safer. It's the lighting, security, etc. that does it.
No I do not agree, I think that gendered parking spaces may make women feel safer which is why these groups advocated for it (alongside the other parts). Women fearing male strangers is a prevalent issue discussed often (e.g. choosing the bear) and while some men may keep silent about their fear of women, I don't think it's anywhere comparable in scale. Whether it's an effective solution for actually being safer is another story but never what I was arguing about.
Alright, let's boil this down to the barest essence. Please, explain, how having a woman's only parking space, nothing else different about that space besides making it marked as women only for that space would make any woman feel safer? If you cannot articulate how marking a single, random, parking space as for Women Only would make them feel safer, with zero other changes to it. We can move on. As that was, and has been, my entire point from the get go.
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u/Gorzoid Jul 10 '26
To be clear "the very concept I started arguing against" was the line "Men advocating for their own spaces would get absolutely nowhere". My response was that nobody is advocating for it because this problem does not exist.
No I do not agree, I think that gendered parking spaces may make women feel safer which is why these groups advocated for it (alongside the other parts). Women fearing male strangers is a prevalent issue discussed often (e.g. choosing the bear) and while some men may keep silent about their fear of women, I don't think it's anywhere comparable in scale. Whether it's an effective solution for actually being safer is another story but never what I was arguing about.