Curfew For Men

[cyril_smear]

Are you saying that this hasn’t happened?

Are you saying that this hasn’t happened?

What hasn’t happened?

What I remember was that there was something going round on Facebook a few months ago about police looking for “a man” after a series of incidents around that area and the police went on to say that they had no such reports Not that it didn’t happen, but that they had had no reports.

I can’t comment on the separate “incident” that they thoroughly investigated but found “nothing to support that it had happened”

 

[Orang Utan]

What hasn’t happened?

What I remember was that there was something going round on Facebook a few months ago about police looking for “a man” after a series of incidents around that area and the police went on to say that they had no such reports Not that it didn’t happen, but that they had had no reports.

I can’t comment on the separate “incident” that they thoroughly investigated but found “nothing to support that it had happened”

I’m not sure what the purpose of your posts here serve

 

[cyril_smear]

Anybody who would be in favour of anything like this is an idiot.

 

[oli_1_uk]

No, it’s a way to arrange them

Online dating is in addition to face to face encounters, there are times you may meet someone without initially meeting them online, what happens then? You've not met them online, so would you have to ignore that encounter?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Not a curfew, as such, but iirc, they have women only train carriages in Japan, and in Mexico they have women only buses.

Mexico City metro trains also have women only carriages - iirc it's the first one on every train

 

[Orang Utan]

Online dating is in addition to face to face encounters, there are times you may meet someone without initially meeting them online, what happens then? You've not met them online, so would you have to ignore that encounter?

Yes, unless perhaps you were introduced by a mutual friend

 

[Orang Utan]

Anybody who would be in favour of anything like this is an idiot.

Read the thread

 

[chilango]

Got to wonder at the kind of person who decides the aftermath of a young woman's kidnap and murder is the time to go trolling the feminists tbh

The kind of person unwittingly providing the evidence to back up the feminists' argument.

 

[chilango]

Mexico City metro trains also have women only carriages - iirc it's the first one on every train

...and have done for over a decade.

 

[krtek a houby]

Anybody who would be in favour of anything like this is an idiot.

Showing solidarity or trying to comprehend what it's like to be a woman alone at night?

 

[cyril_smear]

Read the thread

I don’t need to read the thread. Any reasonable person knows it wasn’t an honest suggestion by the MP, and was said only to draw a comparison.

I’m surprised that you seemed somewhat warm to the idea though. Unless I’ve misunderstood.

 

[Orang Utan]

I don’t need to read the thread. Any reasonable person knows it wasn’t an honest suggestion by the MP, and was said only to draw a comparison.

I’m surprised that you seemed somewhat warm to the idea though. Unless I’ve misunderstood.

You’ve misunderstood and you need to read the thread

 

[BlanketAddict]

Yes, unless perhaps you were introduced by a mutual friend

Sucks if you're not on the internet or not comfortable using it I guess? What then?

 

[Orang Utan]

Sucks if you're not on the internet or not comfortable using it I guess? What then?

I dunno. We’re getting far from the point here. Let’s get back on track.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Sucks if you're not on the internet or not comfortable using it I guess? What then?

I don't think this was saying this would be the only option available just an extra option for venues.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a problem with men approaching women in a friendly way for a dance or a drink or a chat. But if the woman isn't interested, back off without calling her filthy names.

 

[killer b]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a problem with men approaching women in a friendly way for a dance or a drink or a chat. But if the woman isn't interested, back off without calling her filthy names.

I think I'd get pretty pissed off if I was constantly being approached for banal banter with an edge of 'please fuck me' by strangers all evening whenever I went out tbh.

 

[chilango]

Just as in stuff like the Harry and Meghan discussion it's illustrative to see some - who would no doubt take great offense at being called racist or sexist - keener to undermine the substantive point on the grounds of irrelevant nitpicking than to shut up and listen.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I think I'd get pretty pissed off if I was constantly being approached for banal banter with an edge of 'please fuck me' by strangers all evening whenever I went out tbh.

Yes, it's annoying. But thankfully most of them will back off when it's clear that I'm not interested.

 

[killer b]

Yes, it's annoying. But thankfully most of them will back off when it's clear that I'm not interested.

would you like to be able to choose to go and dance somewhere where you wouldn't be annoyed?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

would you like to be able to choose to go and dance somewhere where you wouldn't be annoyed?

Yes, definitely.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Read the thread

 

[killer b]

Yes, definitely.

that's really all anyone is talking about here tbh

 

[neonwilderness]

I think I'd get pretty pissed off if I was constantly being approached for banal banter with an edge of 'please fuck me' by strangers all evening whenever I went out tbh.

The last place I worked had quite a lot of younger staff. Whenever we were on a work night out and ended up in a club it was always surprising the number of random guys who would appear from nowhere and start trying to integrate themselves into our group

 

[8ball]

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I’ve been thinking it sounded like a perfume since I first saw the thread title but didn’t want to mention it.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I’ve been thinking it sounded like a perfume since I first saw the thread title but didn’t want to mention it.

#metoo

 

[Edie]

The last few times I've been out dancing with a crew, I've spent sometimes substantial portions of the night physically placing myself between women in our group and various frotting men. Which is ok as a in the moment solution, but doesn't feel like it's anything more than that, and it's a culture that needs to be built into the club night.

I know there was talk a while back about Safe Spaces policies in clubs, has anyone had much experience of going to a club where this is proactively promoted? And not just in a 'women speak to the bouncers' way, but in a 'men, these are your responsibilities' way?

Isn’t it enjoyable to have a bit of a flirt though? Going to a “safe space” club sounds fucking dull. I also wouldn’t want a guy ‘stepping in’. I can’t be the only woman who can handle herself surely.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Isn’t it enjoyable to have a bit of a flirt though? Going to a “safe space” club sounds fucking dull. I also wouldn’t want a guy ‘stepping in’. I can’t be the only woman who can handle herself surely.

Don't you think it would be nice to have the option?

 

[killer b]

Isn’t it enjoyable to have a bit of a flirt though? Going to a “safe space” club sounds fucking dull. I also wouldn’t want a guy ‘stepping in’. I can’t be the only woman who can handle herself surely.

I understand some people wouldn't like it, I suppose you can go to a different club. Lots of women I know find men aggressively pushing themselves onto them on the dancefloor and constantly being interrupted by drunk sleazy dudes boring.

 

[8ball]

I understand some people wouldn't like it, I suppose you can go to a different club. Lots of women I know find men aggressively pushing themselves onto them on the dancefloor and constantly being interrupted by drunk sleazy dudes boring.

I don’t think it’s an either/or between these two things.