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Oh, not this nonsense again. Segregating women is not the answer to sexual harassment. Men not being abusive asshats is.
If this was enacted, the first question a woman who had decided to travel on a 'mixed' carriage and was subsequently assaulted would be >
> asked was 'Why weren't you in the women-only carriage?'. Segregation under patriarchy *reinforces* sexism, it doesn't help to end it.
Instead of throwing themselves around in lumps, essentially wailing that ending sexual violence is too difficult, male politicians who want>
>to end sexual violence could start by a. listening to women's voices, and b. tackling sexism amongst their male peers.
Lastly, I find it *particularly* infuriating that this Shadow Minister has come out with this when there a loads of Labour women who could>
> have told him it was bollocks, just as they did the last time it was suggested.
