I know that Jeremy Corbyn suggested the idea of women’s only train carriages during his first leadership election, and was attacked for it (for encouraging segregation).
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Ugh. Head, desk, etc.
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And Corbyn of course is the shit. Good interview at halfway or so of him by Naomi Klein.
(Thanks @Wanderfound !)
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The Iraq thing on that list is an UN observer effort, not a Nato coalition effort. Two very different matters.
Surely you are old enough to remember then Prime Minister Bondevik protesting (albeit feebly) the 2003 US led Iraq invasion?
That’s not actually what I’m talking about. Being Norwegian I actually had both dialects in school. This is much more severe and doesn’t stick with the grammatical rules of either.
Yes, although it absolutely was very forgettable. I didn’t make that distinction as the list is called: “Norwegian military operations abroad”. Do you think any militants will make the distinction? The context was whether Norway has ever done anything to deserve the ire of any militants.
It’s almost as if people are not informed of the differences between “good sexism” and “bad sexism”. That’s the problem with trying to change the content of exclusion rather than the process. Tribalism is short-sighted in that it merely substitutes one oppressed group for another instead of striving for egalitarian societies. Who is oppressed is less significant than that there are oppressive tactics being used.
I think many women would very much like to do things like go to work without being harassed on public transit. Unfortunately, some men seem unable to keep their comments and/or hands to themselves. Until it’s not a problem, solutions like this will continue to be employed or floated.
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Throughout the US in the 20th century, forced segregation has always been a symptom and a mechanism of bigotry, rather than ever functioning as any sort of solution to it. So I would be very skeptical, even if I were not a non-binary person. It might help some individuals to feel better in the short term, but I can’t help but feel that socially it is regressive. It also reminds me of the forced homosociality common to some Latin and Arab cultures, which I personally don’t function well in.
This is not enforced. It’s a choice made by people who are victims of harassment. It’s not a bus that women have to ride - it’s a bus women can decide to ride if they don’t feel safe riding on a bus that has men and women. No one would force women to ride it, except those who are harassing them. There is no force in this case. Personally, I wish that some didn’t find it necessary, but they do. I wish that the men that regularly harass women in public places would stop being assholes. Until that stops, people will continue to float options like this.
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