They exist in Korea, although I think it spring from the stereotype of “women can’t park very well so they need their own spaces to park in” mentality more than anything else.
And of course it’s doubly important in Asia.
Never ever seen anything like it here.
Also haven’t seen the “pregnant woman with stroller” sign, that I can remember. I have, very occasionally seen a plain “parents with prams” sign, no pic. I don’t often go into big car parks though
I’ve never seen anything other than handicapped spaces here in Israel.
How do you enforce it? Do women get to put special stickers on their windows like handicapped people?
It’s enforced as with any social custom/order/etiquette - self-enforcement.
The thought being, of course, that you’d shame yourself into compliance for if you park there and you’re not preggo, you’re depriving the self-proclaimed-queen-of-the-world-because-i’m-pregnant-and-therefore-you-all-need-to-respect-me expectant mother of the spot.
However, at the end of the day, you would be tresspassing so there’s always external enforcement if you were that big of a d-bag about it, even after being busted.
Just because someone doesn’t see something as sexist doesn’t mean it’s not sexist.
So, you are saying all women are feminists?
Why does Republicans get to say “He (or she) wasn’t a true republican.” but a feminist can’t say “She (or he) wasn’t a true feminist”? Both are groups of people who define themselves by their believes. A woman is a term for half the world’s population, more about biology than about believe.
Tone is hard to convey online, it’s didn’t sound like a neutral statement to me.
Jumping to the conclusion that she “worship” feminism, just because she called you on something that sounded like a feminist put down? She did NOT call you racist, she equated what you said to racist things, big difference.
I just looked over Shot from Guns posts, I don’t see all caps or even a “!”, so there was no yelling. As for over the top, reading her stuff, doesn’t sound over the top to me. She makes statements, tell her opinion, and asks questions, some of this sound like she’s annoyed, but could it be over the top because they just happen to be in disagreement of what you said.
The fact you say she “screaming” and “freaking out” makes me think you are trying to get people to ignore what she is saying, by taking the emphasis off of what she is saying and onto what you want people to think her behavior is.
Yet another perspective on this is that it represents a lower level of government intervention to allow the owner of a private car park to set this policy if he or she so chooses.
If you owned a car park and an adjacent shopping center in a downtown area and wanted to try this policy out to see if it would help business, at a lower cost than beefing up security for the entire parking area, how appealing is it for government to say that you can’t do this?
A government mandate to provide such spaces is, of course, another kettle of fish.
sigh NOBODY gets to say it without invoking logical fallacy. Get it? For any group X, if a member behaves in a manner inconsistent with how group X sees itself, saying “Well, they aren’t a true X” is a lame attempt to avoid examining whether the definition was accurate in the first place. Maybe it’s untrue that all feminists are nonsexist. Maybe it’s untrue that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility in every case. But members of the group don’t question the purity of their own self-characterization, so they are dismissive of (or completely blind to) the exceptions.
I’m in the US and have never in my life even heard of this concept. In some places (mostly university) we’ll have escorts for anyone afraid of late night walking/parking.
I’ve actually seen such in Mexico. Specifically the Fiestamericana parking lot in León, Guanajuato, and the Ford parking lot in Cuautitlán, Mexico (state). I had no idea it was supposed to be some safety measure; I just assumed it was because most of the female employees are cleaning staff, and they must have cleaning equipment to move (surface reaction only; I’d never really thought about it until now). I can’t say that the trend is widespread, though.