I remember when in the 1980s the provision of a parking area near the entrance in multi-storey or underground car parks, for the exclusive use of female drivers, was an urgent feminist agenda issue in Germany. The claim was that women needed the feeling of safety afforded by being able to park near the entrance. It was almost universally implemented within a few years and is a public nonissue nowadays (A cartoonist’s take on using discretion in the enforcement of this rule).
Is the provision of parking spaces for women, near the entrance, also an universal in other countries that have a lot of multi-storey and/or underground car parks?
I’ve never seen it in Canada either. Some grocery stores have spaces designated for pregnant women or women with strollers. Those are right beside the handicapped parking spots.
Another vote for “I’ve never seen this in America.” I don’t recall ever seeing it in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Japan, but I wasn’t particularly looking for it in those countries, either (especially not in Japan, where I was in a car all of two or three times).
Yes, because all feminists believe in preferential treatment for women, just like all Jews are bankers and all Mexicans wear sombreros. :rolleyes:
This is true, I’ve seen them as “parent” or simply with the stroller graphic only and no text.
Although… I think maybe Loblaws (grocery store) may have the graphic include a pregnant woman pushing the stroller. I’ll have to look again, next time I bike to the grocery store.
Something like this. (Looks like “shopping for babies.”)
Right, because that bears any resemblance whatsoever to what I wrote. All I wrote is that a policy being both sexist and feminist is not a contradiction. In other words, that one can be both a feminist and a sexist. This contradicts the way feminists usually like to characterize themselves, but of course only members of a given political grouping actually believe that that group’s selfcharacterization is literally true.
Imagine if I had said that a policy being both conservative and fiscally irresponsible was not a contradiction, and some conservative responded with “Oh my God, you racist!”. Because that’s exactly what you just did.
If I saw a “Women’s Parking Only” sign, it would be one of those foreign things that’s sufficiently weird that you take a picture of it to show the people back home.
Haven’t seen anything like that in Australia. We have disabled parking and parents parking (well the sign is of a woman with a stroller, but I interpret it as a generic parent with a stroller.)
Ditto New Zealand, though I think the “parents with stroller” signs I’ve seen here have generally just had a picture of a stroller, or a completely generic stick-figure type parent.
